Oral history interview with Jane Kallir
name: label: Interviewee
content: Kallir, Jane
label: Interviewer
content: Long, Rose-Carol Washton
label: Names
content: Galerie St. Etienne
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Gallery owners -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators. Funding for this interview was provided by the Art Dealers Association.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Kallir, Jane
label: Interviewer
content: Long, Rose-Carol Washton
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jane Kallir (1954- ) is an art dealer from Galerie St. Etienne in New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound cassette (Sound recording: 1 sound cassette (90 min.), analog)
label: Extent
content: 29 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1993 Feb. 25
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kallir93
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview of Jane Kallir, conducted by Rose-Carol Washton Long for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution in New York, New York on February 25, 1993.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Kallir speaks of the founding of the Galerie St. Etienne by her grandfather; her grandfather's Neue Galerie in Vienna; her education in art history and studio art; how she began working at the Galerie St. Etienne; her interest in folk art and Austrian and German Expressionism; writing a catalogue raisonne on Egon Schiele; her grandfather's attitude towards women artists, including Kathe Kollwitz and Grandma Moses; and exhibitions at the Galerie including Gustav Klimt to Egon Schiele, Austria's Expressionism, The Folk Art Tradition. Kallir also recalls John Kallir, Eva Marie Kallir, Hildegard Bachert, and others.