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Rebeccah Blum (1967–2020) was an American art historian and curator. Blum was born in Berkeley, California. After studies in art history at American University in Washington, DC, she moved to Germany, where she worked as director at Berlin-based gallery Aurel Scheiblerin and European liaison of David Nolan Gallery in New York.

Early life
Blum was born in 1967 in Berkley, California to author Susan Bockius and Professor Mark Blum. She and was raised close to Philadelphia. In 1985, she moved Washington, DC, to study art history under feminist luminaries like Norma Broude and Mary Garrard at the American University. Blum moved to the German city of Düsseldorf in 1992, at the age of 25, before settling in Berlin in 1995. She had a daughter, Emma Blum.

Career
Her career in Germany spanned 28 years and included the founding of several innovative enterprises. In 1995, she opened Base e.V, an open art studio in Berlin's Old East. She started Blum Fine Arts Management in 2012, which provided career management and support services to artists; and Satellite Berlin, a Berlin-based gallery co-founded with Kit Schulte which proffered presentation of art in dialogue with the sciences. Blum became a director at Berlin-based gallery Aurel Scheiblerin 2007. At the gallery’s ScheiblerMitte outpost, she curated and co-curated several exhibitions, including a show of work by French-American video artist Michel Auder in 2009. Blum, who was fully bilingual in German and English, simultaneously built a career as a freelance editor and translator. She worked on monographs, exhibition catalogues, magazines, and more for Anton Kern Gallery, David Noland Gallery, and Hatje Cantz, among other clients.

Education
Blum returned to school in 2017 for a Master’s in Management of Cultural and Nonprofit Organizations at University of Kaiserslautern. She graduated June 2020.

Death
Rebeccah Blum was found murdered on July 22, 2020, by her partner Saul Fletcher. Fletcher subsequently committed suicide.

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