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Paul Cassirer (February 21, 1871 in Görlitz - January 7, 1926 in Berlin) was a German art dealer and editor who played a significant role in the promotion of the work of artists of the Berlin Secession and of French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, in particular that of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne. Events 362 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria. 1245 - Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland Year 1871 ( MDCCCLXXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Görlitz ( is a town in Germany on the Lusatian Neisse River in the Bundesland Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. The Berlin Secession ( Berliner Secession) was an art association founded by Berlin artists in 1898 as an alternative to the conservative state-run

1 Starting out
2 Second Marriage
3 Death
4 Resources

Starting out

Paul Cassirer started out as a student of art history, and then became a writer in 1890s Munich, where he worked for the weekly magazine Simplicissimus and published two novels. The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the " Mauve Decade" because William Henry Perkin 's aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that Munich (München; Minga is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Simplicissimus is also a name for the 1668 novel Simplicius Simplicissimus and its protagonist

Cassirer moved to Berlin, and he and his cousin Bruno, while still in their mid 20's, opened their gallery on the ground floor of Paul's house in the up-market Viktoriastrasse. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Bruno Cassirer (1872-1941 was a publisher and gallery owner in Berlin who had a considerable influence on the cultural life of the city ^[1]. The cousins came from a prominent family, whose members included the neurologist Richard Cassirer and the philosopher Ernst Cassirer. Richard Cassirer ( April 23, 1868 - August 20, 1925) was a German Neurologist who was born in Breslau. Ernst Cassirer ( July 28, 1874 &ndash April 13, 1945) was a German Jewish Philosopher. Paul's father, Louis, was an engineer and businessman, whose company — Kabelwerke Dr. Cassirer & Co. — manufactured telegraphic cables, and was eventually taken over by Siemens.

In 1895 he married Lucie Oberwarth.

In 1901 Cassirer visited Julien Leclercq's retrospective of Van Gogh's work, and later that year he organized the inclusion of five Van Gogh canvases in the May show of the Berlin Secession. Julien Leclercq ( 1865 - October 31[[ 901]] was a French Poet and Art critic, devoted to Symbolism.

In 1904, on 21 May, Cassirer and Lucie were divorced.

Second Marriage

In 1910 he married Ottilie Godefroy (18 August 1880, Vienna – 21 February 1971, Berlin), the actress well-known under her pseudonym Tilla Durieux. Tilla Durieux ( August 18 1880 &ndash February 21 1971) was a renowned German actress of the first decades of the 20th Tilla had very briefly been married to the painter Eugen Spiro six years earlier. Eugene Spiro, born Eugen Spiro ( April 18, 1874, Breslau, Silesia - September 26, 1972, NYC) was a She and Cassirer were married for sixteen years, but the union was to end tragically.

In 1910 Cassirer also resurrected the periodical Pan. Pan was an arts and literary magazine published from 1895 to 1900 in Berlin by Julius Otto Bierbaum and Julius Meier-Graefe.

Death

In 1926, on 7 January Cassirer met his wife in a lawyer's office to finalize the divorce proceedings. Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental He excused himself and walked into another room where he shot himself. Like the artist he had done so much to promote, Van Gogh, the suicide was not immediately successful. Cassirer died a few hours later from the injury.

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Notes

^ The address was 35 Viktoriastrasse

References

Brühl, Georg: Die Cassirers: Streiter für den Impressionismus, Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1991 ISBN 3-361-00302-4
Feilchenfeldt, Rahel E. , & Brandis, Markus: Paul Cassirer Verlag, Berlin 1898-1933. Eine kommentierte Bibliographie, K. G. Saur, München 2002 ISBN 3-598-11578-4
Paret, Peter: The Berlin Secession. Modernism and its enemies in Imperial Germany, Harvard University Press 1980
Saltzman, Cynthia: Portrait of Dr Gachet, Viking Penguin, 1998 ISBN 0-14-025487-0

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