Luise Mahler

Luise Mahler is a Berlin-born independent scholar and Adjunct Associate Professor in Art Market Studies at the Graduate School of FIT of SUNY, New York. Educated in Germany and the United States, she is currently at work on a book investigating the cubist theories of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and Vincenc Kramář with those of their Central and Eastern European contemporaries. This study includes the first English-language translation of Kramář's 1921 book Kubismus by Alex Zucker and Nicholas Sawicki in collaboration with Charles W. Haxthausen and Mahler. Between 2014 and 2016 she served as an Assistant Curator for the exhibition “Picasso Sculpture” at the Museum of Modern Art. Her expertise and work on the artist and particularly the histories of his varied collectors is complemented by research and publications on the reception and provenance of early twentieth century European art more generally. Mahler's forthcoming and recent publications include "Waiting for Three Musicians: G.F. and Erna Reber's First Picassos" (2025), an essay co-written with Anna Jozefacka, and "In War and Peace: Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler on Juan Gris" (Kunstmuseum Bern, 2024) and "A Case to Make: Vincenc Kramář, Contemporary Art, and the 1923 State Purchase of French Art" (2025). Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (2017-2019) and the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague (2019).