John Weber Gallery : Archive held in Berlin & Dresden.
Research into the archive for John Weber Archive in Berlin & Dresden that was acquired by Edigio Marzona when the gallery in New York closed.
I began to examine the boxes & files in the libraries 2018 & 2019. I also conducted interviews in New York prior to covis March 2019.
This is to be continued during 2023.
Below an obituary giving the life & gallery career of John Weber 1932-2008.
ArtForum obituary NEWS June 02
www.artforum.com/news/johnweber-1932-2008-20499
John Weber, an art dealer known for his early advocacy of Conceptual art, post-Minimalist sculpture, and Italian arte-povera, died on May 23 at his home in Hudson, New York, reports Robert Smnith in the New York Times. He was seventy five.
The cause was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, said his daughter Kristin Weber Friedman of Scarsdale, New York. The son of a doctor, Weber was born in 1932 Los Angeles.
Weber became familiar with contemporary art when he was befriended by Thomas C Colt Jr., director of the Dayton Art Institute. Weber worked at the institute, helping Colt organise a show of Ad Reinhardt’s paintings. In 1960, Weber became director of the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York, and two years later took a job in Los Angeles with the Virginia Dwan Gallery.
In 1968 Dwan closed her Los Angeles gallery, and Weber became the director of a gallery she had opened in 1965 on |West Fifty-seventh street in Manhattan. In 1971, he opened his own gallery at 420 West Broadway, the first gallery building in SoHo; he later moved it to Chelsea before closing it altogether in 2000.
He represented an impressive range of American and European artists, often early in their careers, among them Giovanni Anselmo, Mario Merz, Daniel Buren , Alice Aycock, Hamish Fulton, Aligheiro e Boetti, Adrian Piper, Richard Long, and Dorothea Rockburne.
Weber is survived by his fifth wife, Jeanette Streitparth of Berlin, from whom he was separated; two sons, Amson Weber-Streitparth of Berlin and John A.C. Weber of Santa Fe and Montauk, New York;m three daughters, Friedman, Paolina Weber of New York and Sibella Weber – Veronese of Milan; and four grandchildren.