STIEGLITZ, Alfred
(1864–1946)
STIEGLITZ, Alfred (1 January 1864–13 July 1946). Had Stieglitz not existed, the development of more than one American art would have been retarded. As an art dealer at 291 Fifth Avenue in New York during the first two decades of this century, he exhibited first photographs and then other avant-garde visual art, initially European, eventually American, incidentally elevating the esthetic status of fine photography. His gallery presented the first American exhibitions of Henri Matisse…