Roman Norbert Ketterer

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Roman Norbert Ketterer (born February 6, 1911 in Bräunlingen , † June 19, 2002 in Lugano ) was an auctioneer , gallery owner and art dealer .

Life

The Stuttgart Art Cabinet

In 1946, the former head of the Eislinger company for special oils Südöl , Roman Norbert Ketterer, founded the Stuttgart Art Cabinet in Stuttgart . From 1947 to 1962, 37 auctions with works of art of the classic modern took place here. In this way, works were made known to a broad public that had previously been branded as " degenerate " and removed from public collections. Despised, misunderstood and no longer available in German public collections, modern art gained new appreciation thanks to these auctions, which attracted connoisseurs, collectors, critics and museum people. Some, such as David Rockefeller , Stavros Niarchos and Hans Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza , came to collect modern art through these art events; in general, they contributed to the (re-) entry of today's classic modern art into museums and collections in German-speaking countries.

Among others, Roman Norbert Ketterer's brother Wolfgang Ketterer , who was later to found his own auction house in Munich, as well as Wilhelm Friedrich Arntz , whose archive is now in the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and Ewald Rathke, who later became the director of the Kunstverein Frankfurt, worked in the Stuttgart Art Cabinet .

Gallery Roman Norbert Ketterer in Campione d'Italia

Between 1963 and 1985, twenty-three catalogs with works of modern art were created in the gallery located directly on Lake Lugano . Thanks to the previous experience in the art trade, the worldwide connections and the customers and collectors brought with him from the days of the Stuttgart Art Cabinet, Roman Norbert Ketterer succeeded in establishing himself as a gallery owner in the small Italian exclave of Campione d'Italia . An intensive collaboration developed from the end of the 1970s with the 1970 between his daughter, Ingeborg Henze-Ketterer, and his son-in-law, Dr. Wolfgang Henze, Galleria Henze, also founded in Campione d'Italia. The activities of both campioneser galleries have been continued by the Henze & Ketterer gallery in Wichtrach near Bern since 1993 and by the Henze & Ketterer & Triebold gallery in Riehen near Basel since 2005.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's estate

Roman Norbert Ketterer was the administrator of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's estate from 1954 until his death in 2002 . Both are buried in the Davos forest cemetery.

Kirchner Museum Davos

On September 4, 1992, the new building of the Kirchner Museum Davos in Davos , donated by Roman Norbert Ketterer and his wife Rosemarie Ketterer (1922–2017), was officially opened. On this occasion, around 500 works and 160 sketchbooks were donated from the estate of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , which Gerd Presler recorded in a catalog raisonné in 1996 . In 2019 they were digitized and put online.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KUNSTHANDEL / KETTERER: The man with the flair - . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 1960, ( Online - Aug. 24, 1960 ).
  2. ↑ Source: in memoriam. Roman Norbert Ketterer , in: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The early woodcut 1904 to 1908 , Aust. Kat., Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach / Bern, Catalog 70, 2003, pp. 5–9
  3. ↑ Source: Hommage à Roman Norbert Ketterer , in: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - 90 drawings for 90 years , Aust. Kat., Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach / Bern, catalog 62, 2001, pp. 5–8
  4. ↑ Obituary, Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 15, 2017 ( online )

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personal data
SURNAME Ketterer, Roman Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German auctioneer, gallery owner and art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Bräunlingen
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 2002
Place of death Lugano