 Paul Cassirer

Paul Cassirer (21 February 1871, in Görlitz – 7 January 1926, in Berlin) was a German art dealer and editor who played a significant role in the promotion of the work of artists of the Berlin Secession and of French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, in particular that of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne.Paul Cassirer started out as a student of art history, and then became a writer in 1890s Munich, where he worked for the weekly magazine "Simplicissimus" and published two novels.