Galerie Paffrath
The person interested in learning about the founding history of the Paffrath gallery must first look in a place that might, at first glimpse, have little to do with art at all – namely in old delivery invoices from the Düsseldorfer Malkastenverein from the1860s. In these old documents...
The person interested in learning about the founding history of the Paffrath gallery must first look in a place that might, at first glimpse, have little to do with art at all – namely in old delivery invoices from the Düsseldorfer Malkastenverein from the1860s. In these old documents one can see how a certain carpenter by the name of J.B. Paffrath, living on Jacoby Street, was busy as a key enabler to the Düsseldorf art community. He produced packing cases for their works, which were highly desired in America, and shipped them to dealers and collectors overseas.
