Kallir, Otto  [nee, Kallir-Nirenstein]

Date born:  1894

Place Born:  Vienna

Date died:  1978

Place died:  New York

Art dealer and publisher.  Changed name to simply Kallir in 1933, founded Gallery St Etienne in New York in 1939, largely to show the work of artists being persecuted by the Nazis.

Home Country:  Germany/United States

Sources:  Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich: Saur, 1999,  vol. 1, pp. 351-5.

Bibliography:  

0.Metzler