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Remembering John Sailer, the gallerist and champion of Austrian art, who has died, aged 87

As founder of the influential Galerie Ulysses in Vienna, he established a market for the work of Austrian and German artists in the US as well as championing architects and designers

Victoria Newhouse
7 July 2025
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Sailer’s family escaped Nazi Austria for France and then New York, returning to Vienna in 1947
Photo: Sepp Dreissinger, Vienna