Curt Benedict

Between 1923 and 1933, Kurt Benedict and his partner Eduard Plietzsch (until 1935) managed the Galerie van Diemen & Co. , founded in 1918. The gallery maintained offices in Berlin, Amsterdam, The Hague and New York, and specialized in Dutch art. The establishments, as well as two other galleries, Altkunst Antiquitäten and Dr. Otto Burchard & Co., were under an umbrella organization, the Margraf Concern, owned by Albert Loeske until 1929, when it passed to long time employees Jacob and Rosa Oppenheimer. In 1922, the Berlin based gallery presented its first exhibition on Russian art. In 1935, the Berlin gallery was closed by order of the Nazis. Almost at the same time the New York office merged with the gallery Lilienfeld. By 1937, Kurt Benedict lived in Paris.