Thannhauser Gallery - Marketing Van Gogh

While legend has it that Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) sold only one work during his lifetime, it was not long after his death that sales of his paintings began to shatter auction house records. In this carefully researched book, leading Van Gogh scholars provide us with a glimpse into classified client files and illuminate the critical role that the Thannhauser Gallery occupied in cultivating and shaping an early clientele for the artist's works. Founded in Munich in 1909, the Thannhauser Gallery was Germany's preeminent promoter of the avant-garde in the decades before World War II. In other European cities and in New York, the business thrived, selling an impressive number of Van Gogh's oeuvre: roughly 110 works, including many masterpieces, now part of museum collections all over the world.

About the author

Stefan Koldehoff, geboren 1967 in Wuppertal, hat nach einem Studium der Kunstgeschichte, Germanistik und Politikwissenschaft zunächst als freier Journalist für FAZ, taz und WDR gearbeitet. Von 1998 bis 2001 war er Redakteur und zuletzt stellvertretender Chefredakteur des Kunstmagazins ART in Hamburg. Heute arbeitet er als Kulturredakteur beim Deutschlandfunk in Köln.§

Product details

• Authors: Megan M. Fontanella, Monique Hageman, Gunter Herzog, Nora Koldehoff, Stefan Koldehoff, Stefan Stolwijk Koldehoff, Chris Stolwijk
• Assisted by: Megan M. Fontanella (Editor), Monique Hageman (Editor), Gunter Herzog (Editor), Nora Koldehoff (Editor), Stefan Koldehoff (Editor), Koldehoff Stefan (Editor), Chris Stolwijk (Editor), Stolwijk Chris (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9780300226591
• ISBN: 978-0-300-22659-1
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Mercatorfonds (Yale)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Germany, ART / History / General, ART / European, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, ART / Business Aspects, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Art: Financial Aspects, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections