Galerie St. Etienne

"Neue Galerie (Vienna)" redirects here. For the current gallery in Vienna occupying the same space, see Galerie nächst St. Stephan.
Galerie St. Etienne
Galerie St. Etienne is located in New York City
Galerie St. Etienne
Location of Galerie St. Etienne in New York City
Established1939
Location24 W 57th St #802, New York
Coordinates40°45′48″N 73°58′32″W / 40.7634°N 73.9756°W / 40.7634; -73.9756
DirectorJane Kallir, Hildegard Bachert
Websitegseart.com

Galerie St. Etienne is a New York art gallery specializing in Austrian and German Expressionism, established in Vienna in 1939 by Otto Kallir (originally Otto Nirenstein). In 1923, Kallir founded the Neue Galerie in Vienna.[1] Forced to leave Austria after the 1938 Nazi invasion, Kallir established his gallery in Paris as the Galerie St. Etienne, named after the Neue Galerie's location near Vienna's Cathedral of St. Stephen. In 1939, Kallir and his family left France for the United States, moving the Galerie St. Etienne to New York City.[2] The gallery still exists,[3] run by Otto Kallir's granddaughter Jane at 24 West 57th Street.

  1. ^ Bisanz and Kallir, Otto Kallir-Nirenstein: Ein Wegbereiter österreichischer Kunst (Wien: Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, 1986)
  2. ^ Kallir, Saved from Europe (New York: Galerie St. Etienne, 1999)
  3. ^ "Galerie St. Etienne", Retrieved on May 28, 2018