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Wilhelm Uhde
Friedeberg in der Neumark, Germany, 1874–Paris, 1947
Wilhelm Uhde was a German art historian, collector, dealer, and curator. He began collecting as early as 1905 and was an early supporter of Cubism and Fauvism.
Uhde started out as a law student, but eventually abandoned it in favor of art history, which he studied in Munich and Florence before moving to Paris in 1904.
There, he befriended Pablo Picasso, and in 1909 Uhde commissioned the artist to paint his portrait, which was executed in the Cubist Analytic style (Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde, 1910).
Retrato de wilhelm uhde picasso biography
The collector was also a champion of naïve art, particularly the work of Henri Rousseau, and he actively promoted avant-garde art in France and abroad. Uhde organized exhibitions at his own gallery at rue Notre Dame des Champs in Montparnasse, shows that included works by Georges Braque, André Derain, Auguste Herbin, Jean Metzinger, and Picasso.
In 1908 he launched a traveling exhibition of Impressionist art that went