Editing Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (section)

==Art history==
Although the financial support for artists was an important contribution to art history, he was also a significant figure for his work as an art historian and eyewitness to the emergence of Cubism during the period 1907–1914. When working in Paris, his spare time was devoted to reading and understanding the [[history of art]] and [[aesthetics]]. He also spent his time visiting the city's museums and art galleries. Besides the museums in Paris, he took trips around the European continent to see what was being shown in museums and art galleries outside France. He gave his first interview on Cubism in 1912, and it was actual historical events that led to his career as a historian. There is a view that Kahnweiler's sensibility was such that his gallery, and the way he styled and developed it, was as much a Cubist gallery as were the paintings by Picasso and the other Cubist painters. The gallery had a clear aesthetic position, uncompromising integrity, financial stability and creative development. During the years 1907-1914 his gallery was a central cradle for Cubism, not only to display the works, but where one also met the artists.

Concurrently, the primary means for avant-garde painters and sculptors to show their works to a wider audience remained the [[Société des Artistes Indépendants|Salon des Indépendants]] and the [[Salon d'Automne]]. Kahnweiler forbade his 'gallery Cubists' from exhibiting at these major Salons,<ref name="Taylor, 2010">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aN9MriMKsE Michael Taylor, 2010, Philadelphia Museum of Art, ''Modern and Contemporary'' 439, Metzinger - ''Tea Time'' (''Woman with a Teaspoon''), 1 Audio Stop 439, Podcast]</ref> and by so doing, actually removed them from public view. From the viewpoint of the general public, Cubism came to be more associated with the 'Salon Cubists', such as [[Jean Metzinger]],<ref name="Taylor, 2010" /> [[Albert Gleizes]], [[Fernand Léger]], [[Robert Delaunay]], [[Henri Le Fauconnier]], [[Marcel Duchamp]] and [[Francis Picabia]].<ref name="Edwards, Wood">[https://books.google.com/books?id=TU0KwJuBvAsC&dq=kahnweiler+gallery+cubists+vs+salon+cubists&pg=PA136 Steve Edwards, Paul Wood, ''Art of the Avant-gardes''], Yale University Press, 2004, {{ISBN|0300102305}}</ref>