My Life with Art

By Andre Emmerich

One of the legendary gallery owners in America, now retired, Andre Emmerich provides an intimate and perceptive view of the art and artists who played a prominent role in his life from youth onward. It is a revealing look at the world in which he excelled. Not an autobiography, it is a memoir of a multi-faceted life (born in Frankfurt in 1924, Emmerich arrived in America at the age of fifteen). The chapters include: My First Enthusiasm: Pre-Columbian Art and Archeology; The Fuller Building and Branches in SoHo and Zurich; Top Gallant, the Sculpture Park; The Artists; Importing Antiquities; and Secrets of the Back Room. With many photographs.

Andre Emmerich came to the US in 1941 and opened his first gallery on Madison Avenue in NYC in 1954. Among the artists he represented are Anthony Caro, Morris Louis, David Hockney, Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann. He was twice president of the Art Dealers Association of America. He closed his gallery in 1998.