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the Russian avant-garde, and later added modern art into the mix. She did attract prominent buyers, and the gallery built a fine reputation. The center of the German art world later gravitated away from Cologne to Bonn and Berlin, and many galleries relocated to Berlin or London. Galerie Gmurzynska had already opened a Swiss venue in Zug, in 2003, and had many Swiss collectors, so making that country their base made sense and they opened in Zurich. Now, Bscher is planning a new space in New York, a 6,500-square foot town house on East 78th Street down the block from the gallery’s current location. Architect Drew Lang is helming the renovation, which they expect to complete in fall 2022. It was Bscher’s grandmother’s lifelong dream to have a gallery in New York. “She wished that she had expanded to New York sooner, because she felt like she did so many important shows early on that were
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later taken up by museums. She felt that if she had done these shows in New York, more people would have gotten to see them. It was a dream of hers.” Great grandfather saved Oppenheim bank Bscher’s father came from a very old German family that had started out as cotton merchants. Her greatgrandfather Robert Pferdmenges was a well-known banker, head of the banker’s union in Germany, and prominent in the Protestant church. He joined Oppenheim Bank, then the largest private bank in Europe, as a partner around 1930. Under Nazi law, Oppenheim’s Jewish owners were forced to step aside, and the bank was “Aryanized”, its name changed to “Robert Pferdmenges & Co.” After the war, he returned control of the bank to the Oppenheim family. It was one of only two businesses seized from Jews that were given back to the original owners after the war. Oppenheim continued in business
