Fritz Gurlitt
| Fritz Gurlitt | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Friedrich Louis Moritz Anton Gurlitt 3 October 1854 Vienna, Austro-Hungary |
| Died | 8 February 1893 Thonberg (Leipzig), Germany |
| Occupation | Art dealer Gallery director |
| Spouse(s) | Annarella Imhoff (1858–1935) |
| Children | Angelina (1882–1962) Margarete (1885–?) Wolfgang (1888–1965) Manfred (1890–1972) |
| Parent(s) |
Louis Gurlitt 1812-1897 Elisabeth (née Lewald) |
Friedrich "Fritz" Gurlitt (3 October 1854 - 8 February 1893), originally from Vienna, was a Berlin based art dealer and collector, specialising, in particular, in contemporary art. After his early death the art gallery he had established in central Berlin was taken on by his son, the dealer Wolfgang Gurlitt (1888-1965).
Friedrich Louis Moritz Anton Gurlitt was born in Vienna. His father, Louis Gurlitt 1812-1897, was a well regarded landscape artist. were among the leading families in the nineteenth century arts establishment in the German speaking world, which provided Friedrich with a relatively trouble free admission ticket to the arts community. Friedrich's mother, born Elisabeth Lewald, was of Jewish provenance, which became politically significant only many years later, after a government came to power in Germany that was keen to convert visceral racism into a defining underpinning of government policy.
In 1880 he founded the "Fritz Gurlitt Gallery" in Berlin. The gallery was located at , and specialised in contemporary art. Differences have arisen over the correct name of the business, which is identified sometimes as a "gallery" ("Galerie"), sometimes as an "art dealership" ("Kunsthandlung") and sometimes as an "art salon" ("Kunst-Salon"). Artists whom he backed included Arnold Böcklin and Anselm Feuerbach. In 1886, he was mandated to take charge of the "Jubilee Exhibition", described as the "first international art exhibition in Berlin". The well-regarded novelist Theodor Fontane probably owed much of his knowledge of Böcklin to Fritz Gurlitt. Other artists who in large measure owed their reputations to the Gurlitt Gallery include Wilhelm Leibl, Hans Thoma, Max Liebermann, Lesser Ury, Franz Skarbina and Clara Siewert.
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