Galerie Paffrath
German art gallery in Düsseldorf
The Galerie Paffrath is an art gallery in Düsseldorf, Germany, specialising in paintings of the 19th century.
Profile
Galerie Paffrath specialises in 19th-century paintings, in particular works by painters of the Düsseldorf school of painting, including Andreas Achenbach and Oswald Achenbach, Max Clarenbach, Hugo Mühlig, Johann Wilhelm Preyer and Emilie Preyer. In addition, the gallery sells paintings by classical modernist painters as well as works by 19th-century Scandinavian artists such as Peder Mönsted and Johan Laurentz Jensen.
In addition to monographic exhibitions on individual artists, Galerie Paffrath shows the gallery's new acquisitions twice a year, in spring and autumn, for a fortnight at a time in an exhibition of the same name.
History
In 1867, the master carpenter Johann Baptiste Paffrath (1812–1880) founded a company in Düsseldorf. His carpenter's workshop was located at Ritterstraße 3 in the early 1860s, in which he made the transport boxes for the works of the painters of the Düsseldorf School of Painting and the professors of the Art Academy, which were in great demand overseas. He also set up studio rooms for the artists. The painters often owed the invoice amount and instead gave paintings in payment. The foundation of the gallery was, so to speak, the "box debt". And so the art trade began alongside the carpentry trade on Jacobistrasse in house no.
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