André Emmerich
| André Emmerich | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 11, 1924 Frankfurt, Germany |
| Died | September 25, 2007 (aged 82) New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Art dealer |
André Emmerich (October 11, 1924 – September 25, 2007) was an influential German-born American gallerist who specialized in the color field school and pre-Columbian art while also taking on artists such as David Hockney and John D. Graham.
Emmerich was born in Frankfurt, Germany, to Lily (née Marx) and Hugo Emmerich. His grandfather was an art dealer who collected for J. P. Morgan. His Jewish family fled to Amsterdam when he was seven and Queens, New York in 1940. He graduated with a BA in history from Oberlin College in 1944. For ten years he lived in Paris, where he was a writer and editor, working at Réalités and Connaissance des Arts magazines, the Paris edition of The New York Herald Tribune and Time-Life International.
Robert Motherwell introduced Emmerich to "the small group of eccentric painters we now know as the New York Abstract Expressionist School". During the last half of the 20th century the Emmerich Gallery was located in New York City and since 1959 in the Fuller Building at 41 East 57th Street and in the 1970s also at 420 West Broadway in Manhattan and in Zurich, Switzerland. The Emmerich gallery showed leading artists working in a wide variety of styles including Abstract Expressionism, Op Art, Color field painting, Hard-edge painting, Lyrical Abstraction, Minimal Art, Pop Art and Realism, among other movements. Emmerich also organized important exhibitions of pre-Columbian art and wrote two acclaimed books, "Art Before Columbus" (1963) and "Sweat of the Sun and Tears of the Moon: Gold and Silver in Pre-Columbian Art" (1965), on the subject.
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