Karl Nierendorf (18 April 1889 – 25 October 1947) was a German banker and later, art dealer. He was particularly known for championing the work of contemporary Expressionists in Cologne and Berlin before the War, especially

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Otto Dix Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (; 2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. Along with Geor ...

, and

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. Karl Nierendorf was born on 18 April 1889. He founded the publishing house

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, which produced the magazine ''

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'', and represented the work of Hans Hansen, and the drawings of

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and others. Together with his younger brother, Josef Nierendorf (1898–1949), in 1920 they founded ''Nierendorf Köln Neue Kunst'' in Cologne. In 1921, he met Otto Dix in Dusseldorf, and in 1923, the brothers established the ''Galerie Nierendorf'' there. In 1923, Nierendorf took over J.B. Neumann's Berlin gallery, following Neumann's departure for New York, renaming it the ''Galeire Neumann-Nierendorf''. In 1937, Nierendorf moved to New York City, and established the Nierendorf Gallery there; and a subsidiary gallery, International Art, in Hollywood, the director of which was Estella Kellen (born Katzenellenbogen), sister of

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. In 25 October 1947, he died suddenly from a heart attack. In 1948, the

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purchased his entire estate for US$72,000, including more than 150 works of art by

alone.

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