Early Life
Kahnweiler's Jewish family had moved from Rockenhausen, a small village in the Palatinate (region), to Mannheim, Germany, where Kahnweiler was born in 1884. His upbringing and education at a German Gymnasium prepared him for a life as a philosophic art connoisseur and as a pragmatic businessman. An early initial training in the family business of stock brokerage in Germany and Paris (his uncle had a famous London stock brokerage house and was a major art collector of traditional English works and furniture) gave way to his opening his first small (4 x 4 meters) art gallery in Paris in 1907 at 28 rue Vignon.
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