​​SUZANNE ZUBER

Ms. Zuber's essay "Art in Exile," published in Remarque's Impressionists, examines Remarque's art collection in the context of the art market in the United States in the 1940s, highlighting the strong presence of émigré collectors and art dealers. Remarque became part of the collector scene in New York and Los Angeles in the 1940s-1960s, and the art dealer Sam Salz was his frequent advisor. As discovered by Ms. Zuber, Salz also persuaded Remarque to try his hand at art investments. Ms. Zuber also uncovered the unknown extent of Remarque's contribution as a local European lender to major American museums and galleries during the "loan-drought" of World War II. 

 

"Art in Exile" highlights the American period of the Remarque collection on the basis of previously unpublished documents that Suzanne discovered during her work on the reconstruction of the collection. Material includes the private photographs and inventory books of Sam Salz, Remarque's personal diary, forgotten exhibition documents from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Remarque's correspondence with legendary New York art dealers like Germain Seligman and Paul Rosenberg, and a rare confidential seating chart of the 1979 Remarque auction at Sotheby's, New York.