What is Hildegard Bachert?
'''Hildegard Bachert''' (April 3, 1921 – October 17, 2019) was a German-born American art dealer and gallery director. Bachert moved to the [[United States]] in 1936 to escape the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi regime]]. In 1940, she began working at the [[Galerie St. Etienne]], a Manhattan gallery focusing in Austrian and [[German Expressionism|German expressionist art]], where she worked until her death.<ref>Kilgannon, [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/nyregion/75-years-manhattan-gallery-gustav-klimt-egon-schiele-grandma-moses.html “75 Years at a Manhattan Gallery and No Sign of Stopping,”] The New York Times, Oct. 30, 2015.</ref> She was born in [[Mannheim]], Germany. Bachert died at her home in [[Brattleboro, Vermont]] on October 17, 2019 at the age of 98. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bachert, Hildegard}} [[Category:1921 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:German artists]] [[Category:American artists]] [[Category:People from Brattleboro, Vermont]] {{US-bio-stub}}