Not The Oldest Man In The World

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If it were true that
Alfred Flechtheim
was still alive,
this would be
a much better 
world.

In fact, Alfred Flechthieim
died before World War II
officially began.

But he was immortalized by
Rudolph Belling's sculpture



Portrait of Alfred Flechtheim
(1927)

According to Wikipedia,

Flechtheim appeared in the art world 
shortly after 1900, with a collection 
of paintings by Vincent van Gogh and 
Paul Cézanne; French Avant garde 
early works of  Pablo Picasso, 
Georges Braque and  André Derain; 
paintings of Wassily Kandinsky...

Flechtheim opened his first gallery 
in Düsseldorf in 1913,followed by 
galleries in Berlin, Frankfurt, 
Cologne, and Vienna.






When Adolf Hitler decided something had to be done about DEGENERATE ART...

"Flechtheim was for the Nazi government, you can say, in art, public enemy No. 1,"
 said Ottfried Dascher of Dortmund, a retired professor of history
 from the University of Bochum.

In 1935, to avoid the wrath and theft of the Nazis, Mr. Flechtheim escaped
to England. Two years later, he died as a result of an accident involving
a rusty nail. He was fifty-nine years old.

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