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Gustavus Mayer(1873-1954)
“The dealer who loved to deal"
Meet Mr Mayer
Shadows and traces
Gustavus and family
The Mayer FamilyVincent Mayer (1831-1918) = Caroline Markt (?-1931)
William (1871-1905)
Gustavus =(1) Angelika Pierri (2) Isabel Codrington Pyke-Nott (3) Solvig Svenson
Katharina=David
Melinda
Martin =(1) Jolanta (2) Edwina
Jack Selina Nicola
Stepdaughters: Stella SponneckPauline KonodyMargaret (Peggy) Konody
Helen (1880-1973)
The wives• Angelika Maria Anna Pierri Burkhardt Goertz Sponneck Mayer Evans• Isabel Codrington Pyke-Nott Konody Mayer• Ruth Solvig Marianne Svenson Mayer
Key dates• Gus born 1873, Hoboken, NJ• 1883 to Lausanne, Switzerland • By 1893, in London, but travelling• 1903 marries Ange• 1905 brother William dies• 1907 divorces Ange• 1911 Colnaghi and Obach merger• 1912 Isabel divorces Paul Konody• 1913 marries Isabel, lives at
Wistler’s Wood
• 1918 Vincent dies• 1923 Gus becomes a British citizen• 1931 Caroline dies• 1938-39 personal bankruptcy, sale
of Wistler’s Wood• 1939 Katharina born• 1943 Isabel dies• 1944 marries Solvig• 1945 Martin born• 1954 Gus dies, buried Darmstadt,
Germany
“Mayer loved to deal”• From 1890s, studying in Europe: Dresden, Paris, Karlsruhe, Palermo• From 1900s Obach to Colnaghi, painting, prints and drawings• Deals of renown: portrait of Jan Six,
the Liechtenstein Collection• Great coups, now infamous: the Hermitage sale
The Mayer family and the print• Vincent Mayer: printer and print collector• Helen Mayer: publisher
Mayer and the dealers• Receiving the ‘daily Zinzer’• Francis Zatzenstein (Matthiesen) and mutual support• The Knoedler connection• Gus among the dealers
Mayer and the art world• Laurence Binyon, students together• Muirhead Bone and the Glasgow school• Naturalisation referees (1923): Lionel Cust,
Sir Charles Holmes
The extended family and the art world
John Nott Pyke NottOf Bydown, North Devon
Isabel Codrington Pyke-Nott=(1) Paul Konody=(2) Gus Mayer
Pauline Margaret (Peggy)
James Pyke-NottEvelyn Pyke-Nott = John Byam Liston Shaw
Glen Byam Shaw James Byam Shaw
Extended family and the art world
• John Byam Liston Shaw (Boer War, at BMAG)• Isabel Codrington, Cantine Franco-Britannique, Vitry-le-François
(IWM)• Isabel Codrington, The Green Bowl (Aberdeen Art Gallery)• Paul Konody, The Art of Walter Crane• Pauline Konody, Irises
BM 1933,0907.4
The outside world: a true Englishman
• The man about town • A country estate and shoot• Stockbrokers’ Tudor (and genuine Stuart)• A daffodil medal• Home Guard duties• “Uncle Dan” and “Peter”
British, yet internationalNaturalisation application 1922, due to “my long residence in this country where all my property and business interests are situated”And yet“I have visited every country in Europe except Roumania for the purpose of study and business” (TNA: HO144/2601)
The outside world: a true Germanophile
• Hansastrasse, Freiburg: home• Kliffende, Sylt: property in Germany• Germany on the Med: Alassio• “that marvellous Hock you recommended”• German current affairs• “Passionately interested in matters of health”
The outside world: a sportsman
The outside world: a sybarite
A study in contrasts
The outside world: the bankrupt
Legacy• Print dealing in the next generation• Artistic patronage in the family (Bluebell woods, Jean-Louis Badet)
Legacy: the next generations• martinmayerphotography.co.uk• Selina Mayer photography http://selinamayer.tumblr.com/post
/45031086847/self-february-2013-mamiya-rz67-expired-ilford
http://selinamayer.tumblr.com/post/70104965281/self-portrait-december-2013-mamiya-rz67-fuji
Mayer the collageGustavus
GusUncle DanBjörn
Hoboken NJLausannePalermoFreiburg im Breisgau
Half Moon StBond St Aldershvile slot
Wistler’s WoodField House Luetzelbach, Darmstadt
Fin