E. Pinkus Fine Art

E. Pinkus Fine Art Ms. Pinkus presents a unique mix of art dealer, art appraiser and agent, providing representation of specific artists. She is active on three continents. E. Mr.

She has worked on three continents, and keeps on active network of contacts worldwide. Her passion is to guide her clients as they purchase art fo the first time, or continue to purchase to round out a collection. She works with private individuals as well as galleries and museums. Pinkus Fine Art, originally Gerson Neustadt Antiquitaeten, was founded in Breslau, Germany, in 1899, by the Great Gra

ndfather of the current owner, Evelyne Pinkus. The business originally specialized in 18th century furniture and decorative arts, much of which was acquired from the Silesian aristocracy. Ernst Pinkus the grandson of the original owner, was considered one of the foremost experts on 18th Porcelain and Faience, both in United States and Europe. Prestigious institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Victorian Albert Museum and the Bayrischer National Museum sought his expertise. Upon his untimely death in 1969, his wife, Steffi Pinkus continued as president of the corporation, advising museums, important collectors such as Greta Garbo, Jackie Kennedy, Helen Hayes and Walter Pidgeon as well as major auction houses such as Sotheby’s and Christies. In 1982, Steffi and Ernst’s daughter Evelyne Pinkus took over the business in New York and in 1985 moved the business to Israel, where she continued to deal with clients worldwide and in 2002 established a second office in Germany. In 2009 family considerations brought her to New Jersey.

When Dix (not Jewish) painted this picture of Wilhelm Mayer-Hermann, a prominent (Jewish) Berlin doctor, he was a favor...
08/14/2025

When Dix (not Jewish) painted this picture of Wilhelm Mayer-Hermann, a prominent (Jewish) Berlin doctor, he was a favorite portraitist of Germany's cultural bohemia and its patrons. Yet his eye could be coolly unflattering. Dix had fought in World War I, a crucial formative experience: "It is necessary to see people in this unchained condition in order to know something about man," he said, and he came out of the war wanting "to depict things as they really are." Having experimented earlier with Expressionist and other modern styles, in 1920 he abandoned them for an approach and technique modeled on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century German art. In the process he was identified with what became known as the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement, which advocated an unsentimental realism in the treatment of modern life.

Dix may portray the doctor exactingly, but the pose and the setting seem chosen to stress his rotundity. Everything is round: the face, the bags under the eyes, the double chin, the shoulders, the position of the arms, the tummy. A round lamp is affixed to the doctor's forehead, and behind him are a round clock-face and a round electrical socket. However precise the depiction, it verges on satire.

The subject of the painting himself, Mayer-Hermann, fled in the N**i period to New York, where he continued a successful career as a laryngologist.

Text largely taken from the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

05/09/2025
03/09/2025

These are the faces of the authentic North Americans, but very few people know about them. Known as Apaches, Sioux, Cherokees or Cheyennes, there were many other ethnic groups such as the Blackfeet, the Arapaho or the Navajos.

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