!!!Kallir, Otto eigentlich O. Nirenstein

b. Vienna, April 1, 1894, 
d. New York (USA), Nov. 30, 1978, art historian, art dealer, 
publisher. Studied at the University of Technology in Vienna; in 1919 
founded the publishing house "Neue Graphik" in Vienna, in 1922 the 
"Neue Galerie", also in Vienna (until 1938), and in 1923 the "Johannes 
Press" (Vienna and New York), whose publications include the graphical 
work of E.  Schiele, O.  Kokoschka, A.  Kubin and M. Beckmann; 
organised exhibitions (V. van Gogh) and published books by T. Mann and 
H. von  Hofmannsthal. 1939 emigration to the United States. Chairman 
of the Austro-American League and owner of the St. Etienne gallery in 
New York, with special focus on Austrian and German expressionist 
artists and American Naive Painting. 1940-1963 founded American Views 
Inc. and re-established Johannes Press, New York, which published R. 
M.  Rilke amongst others.

!Literature
J. Kallir, Saved from Europe. O. K. and the History of the 
Galerie St. Etienne, 1999.



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