Ludwig Wilhelm Gutbier
Date of birth: 1873
Date of death: 1951
Category: print dealer
Identity:
Ludwig Wilhelm Gutbier was an art and print-dealer.
The galerie Ernst Arnold in Dresden operated from 1893-1951. Adolf Ludwig Gutbier (1841–1902), became manager of the Galerie Ernst Arnold in 1863. He was succeeded by his son his son Ludwig Wilhelm Gutbier in 1891.
Life:
Ludwig Wilhelm Gutbier admired the work of Whistler, which he had seen in London. In the summer of 1895 he met Whistler in Paris and the artist promised to send him some pictures and pastels for exhibition at his Dresden gallery. Sir E. Forbes (who owned some of Whistler's pastels) and the Goupil Gallery agreed to also contribute works to this show. In September of that year Gutbier wrote to Whistler to say that he was 'arranging an exhibition of modern english graphic work which will take place in my own galleries' which would include 35 of Whistler's etchings. However, he was unable to obtain any of Whistler's lithographs, although he had viewed some at the home of Thomas Way, and he asked Whistler to send him a set (GUW #00197).
As manager of the Kunstsalon Ernst Arnold in Dresden, Gutbier turned the gallery into one of Germany's leading galleries for modern art. In 1910 an exhibition of the work of Die Brücke was held in the Dresden gallery.
Bibliography:
Grisebach, Lucius, 'Die Brücke', The Grove Dictionary of Art Online, ed. L. Macy. Neue Deutsche Biographie, Wer ist's, vol. 2, p. 498; Ausstellung Englische Radierungen veranstaltet in Kunst-Salon Ernst Arnold , (L.W. Gutbier), Dresden, 1904; Negendanck, Ruth, Die Galerie Ernst Arnold in Dresden (1893–1951), Weimar: Verlag für Geisteswissenschaften, 1997; Hopkinson, Martin, No Day Without a Line: The History of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers 1880-1999, Oxford, 1999, p. 30. 'Galerie Arnold', Wikipedia.
