Biography
Hans Maximilian Calmann (1899-1982) was an art dealer in London, mainly specialising in Old Master drawings. Originally a stockbroker in the family firm in Hamburg, Calmann moved to England in 1937 and set up as a dealer. He worked first in St James's; after internment on the Isle of Man, he re-opened in 1941 in Davies Street, and in 1963 moved to Bruton Place. Calmann retired in 1973 to Pilton in Somerset. He was married to Gerta Hertz, a scholar who wrote, amongst others: 'The picture of Nobody', JWCI XXIII 1960, pp. 60-104. He had four children by his first wife, Kathe Brasch, and their son was the publisher John Calmann, who was notoriously murdered in 1980 in France.