Wilhelm Uhde  Wilhelm Uhde,  (born Oct. 28, 1874, Friedeberg in
Neumark, Ger. [now Strzelce Krajeńskie, Pol.]—died Aug. 17,
1947Paris, France), German collector, art dealer, and writer who
was strongly influenced by the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Uhde studied law and art history before moving to Paris in 1904.
Four years later he opened an art gallery in which he exhibited
Fauvist work, as well as Cubist work by artists such as Pablo
Picasso, Georges Braque, and André Derain. As a natural
outgrowth of writing catalog texts for those exhibitions, Uhde
soon began writing biographical monographs such as one on the
work of the French painter Henri Rousseau (1911). His writings
seemed influenced by the ideas of art critics Wilhelm Worringer
and Julius Meier-Graefe. In particular, Uhde accepted
Worringer’s division of artistic styles into those of
regularized “abstraction” and naturalistic “empathy” and Meier-
Graefe’s claim that modern art should serve the values of what
he called freedom and truth.  After livi