Hugo Perls (24 May 1886[1]–1977 was an international art dealer, historian, philosopher and notable collector born in Rybnik in Upper Silesia.

He established the Kaethe Perls Gallery[3] in Berlin and collected and sold the works of many famous artists, particularly impressionists, including Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Cézanne, among others.

Perls immigrated to the United States in 1941 during World War II and lived in Manhattan, the same year that he married his second wife the Swedish writer Eugénie Söderberg (1903–1973).

His published works included the discussion of aesthetics and the relationship between beauty and art although Die Komödie der Wahrheit (The Comedy of Truth) also featured other topics such as German intellectualism and the growth of Antisemitism.

Perls was sued by the Hamburg art collector Elsa Wolf-Essberger for selling forgeries of Vincent van Gogh paintings from Otto Wacker.