Tobias Meyer (auctioneer)

Tobias Meyer (* 1963 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German-Austrian art dealer and auctioneer .

Life

When he was 14 years old, his family moved to Vienna. After graduating from high school in 1981, he completed the "Art Appreciation" course at Christie's . In 1983, while studying art in Vienna, he worked for the Viennese art dealer Czeslaw Bednarczyk . Bednarczyk sent him to London for his first auction purchase. In 1989, after graduating, Meyer went to Christie's in London as a trainee. In 1992 he became the first auction expert to move directly from Christie's to rival Sotheby’s .

He achieved his breakthrough with the sale of a Gerhard Richter painting for the record sum of 590,000 dollars at the time. From 1997 to the end of 2013 he was Head of Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Worldwide , from 2004 with the title Principal Auctioneer . The pieces he auctioned include the most expensive works of art in the world, including Boy with Pipe (US $ 104.2 million, May 5, 2004) and Dora Maar with a cat (US $ 95.2 million, May 3, 2006) , both by Picasso, and The Scream by Edvard Munch (US $ 119.9 million, May 2, 2012). At the end of November 2013 he announced his departure from Sotheby's and announced that he would no longer work as an auctioneer but as an art dealer.

In a study by the specialist journal Art Review 2009, Meyer found himself 27th among the 100 most influential people in the industry.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography on Sotheby's official website (no longer available)
2. ↑ Claudia Bodin: Herber loss. (No longer available online.) Www.art-magazin.de, November 25, 2013, archived from the original on December 23, 2014 ; Retrieved July 20, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Report about Tobias Meyer in the Handelsblatt from May 5, 2006
• Tobias Meyer in an interview with the FAZ on February 6, 2012