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| - The Moderne Galerie, founded by art dealer Gottfried Tanner (1880–1958) in Zurich, was one of the first galleries in Switzerland to specialize in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French and Swiss art by, for example, Cuno Amiet, Hans Arp, Ferdinand Hodler, and Oskar Lüthy. In the years just before and after the onset of World War I, the gallery became a pivotal player in promoting European modernism in the alpine country.Before establishing his own gallery, Tanner worked for Johann Erwin Wolfensberger at Zurich’s Kunstsalon Wolfsberg, which was founded in October 1911 as one of the earliest privately run art salons in Switzerland. Between 1911 and 1913, this new type of art enterprise cropped up in the Swiss art market; Tanner’s Moderne Galerie emerged within this milieu. (en)
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