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Passages online, Band 12

Wilhelm Uhde was a dilettante in the best sense of the word, as an art dealer, as an art historian and as a collector. Before the First World War, he had rendered outstanding services to the Parisian avant-garde, then concentrated primarily on promoting so-called Naive painting. He lived in Paris from 1904, with interruptions due to the World Wars. The book publishes letters to dealers and friends and thus traces the situation of a deeply convinced European, living between nations, who was deprived of his citizenship by the National Socialists. After the Second World War, he had only two years left, and now abstract painting also came into his focus.