Annely Juda CBE (born Anneliese Emily Brauer; September 23, 1914 – August 13, 2006) was a German art dealer known for founding the Annely Juda Fine Arts gallery in London. Notable artists represented have included Anthony Caro, David Hockney and

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. Juda introduced several Japanese artists to the London art market.

Life

Anneliese Emily Brauer was born in

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

in 1914 and she was brought up in Germany. Her father was a chemist and he had bought a building that had belonged to Goethe. Her family were Jewish and they left to escape persecution following her father being arrested in 1933. Juda's grandmother decided to stay and she eventually committed suicide to avoid being deported by the Nazis. Juda's family went to work in Palestine but after three years she left to find her fortune in London. In London she met Paul Juda and his family financed her to study dress design and art at the

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.Philip Carter, 'Juda , Anneliese Emily nnely(1914–2006)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Jan 201
accessed 6 Sept 2015
/ref> She married Paul Juda on 15 November 1939 and he was able to arrange for her parents to join them in England. In 1939 the war started and she volunteered to work for the

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delivering food to people who had been bombed out of their homes during the blitz. After the war, in 1949, the couple returned to Germany. The couple separated in 1955 and Juda left her husband and returned to England with her son and two daughters. Juda worked to earn money to feed her three children and she was assisted by Wilma Kuvecke in 1956. Kuvecke had worked for her in Germany and she followed Juda to London where she took a job so that she could be the Juda children's unpaid nanny.

Art

In 1956 Juda found work assisting in the art business and by 1960 she had started the Molton Gallery. The Hamilton Gallery followed from 1963 to 1967, with backing from Nika Hulton. She exhibited American art, including work by Jackson Pollock and British artists such as William Turnbull, Robyn Denny and Gillian Ayres. Her exhibitions were full of abstract pictures that visitors could interpret with the gallery's brochures. In 1968 she opened the first gallery called Annely Juda Fine Arts with the assistance of her son. The gallery educated London about abstract art and her first exhibition was titled "The Non-Objective World". The gallery's shows featured artists including

Piet Mondrian Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (), after 1906 known as Piet Mondrian (, also , ; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being ...

and Theo van Doesburg from the De Stijl group of artists. In 1998 Juda was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and she took Wilma Kuvecke with her to the ceremony. Kuvecke remained with Juda until she died in London in 2006. Her gallery is still being run by her son, David.Obituary
Judith Flanders, 2006, ''The Guardian'', Retrieved 5 September 2015 Notable artists represented by Juda have included Anthony Caro, David Hockney and

. Juda introduced several Japanese artists; she represented Katsura Funakoshi, Yuko Shiraishi and

Toko Shinoda was a Japanese artist. Shinoda is best known for her abstract sumi ink paintings and prints. Shinoda’s oeuvre was predominantly executed using the traditional means and media of East Asian calligraphy, but her resulting abstract ink paintings ...

.Annely Juda Fine Arts
LondonTown, Retrieved 5 September 2015

References

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