Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler was a German-born art collector, and one of the most notable French art dealers of the 20th century. He became prominent as an art gallery owner in Paris beginning in 1907 and was among the first champions of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and the Cubist movement in art.
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1956
Pablo Picasso, 1910, Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago
Kees van Dongen, c. 1907-08, Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, oil on canvas, Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva
Pencil drawing of Kahnweiler by Juan Gris, 1921, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War.
Picasso in 1908
Picasso with his sister Lola, 1889
Picasso in 1904. Photograph by Ricard Canals
La Vie (1903), Cleveland Museum of Art