Galerie St. Etienne

Profile

The Galerie St. Etienne is the oldest gallery in the United States specializing in Expressionism and Self-Taught Art. Its predecessor, the Neue Galerie, was founded in Vienna in 1923 by the late Otto Kallir and was a principal exponent of German and Austrian modern ism during the period between the two world wars. Having opened with the first posthumous Egon Schiele retrospective, the Neue Galerie was also the exclusive Austrian representative of such major artists as Alfred Kubin and Oskar Kokoschka . In 1930, Kallir rescued from oblivion the legacy of Richard Gerstl, today ranked with Schiele and Kokoschka as one of Austria's major Expressionists. Also in 1930, Kallir published the first catalogue raisonné of Schiele's paintings. Kallir functioned as a publisher of limited edition prints, working with such artists as Max Beckmann, Johannes Itten, Oskar Kokoschka and Alfred Kubin --all of whom he knew well. In addition, Kallir, like many early pioneers of modern ism, was extremely interested in the work of untrained artists. He would greatly expand upon this interest after the 1938 Nazi invasion forced him to flee Austria.

Founded: 1939
Directors: Hildegard Bachert and Jane Kallir
Member: Art Dealers Association of America

represented artists

Max Beckmann      Sue Coe      Lovis Corinth      Henry Darger      Lyonel Feininger      George Grosz      Erich Heckel      Ernst Ludwig Kirchner      Paul Klee      Gustav Klimt      Oskar Kokoschka

Käthe Kollwitz      Alfred Kubin      Paula Modersohn-Becker      Otto Mueller      Edvard Munch      Emil Nolde      Max Pechstein      Egon Schiele