Nationality German | Years active 1964-today | |
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Occupation Art dealer, Entrepreneur, Founder Artnet | ||
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Hans Neuendorf (born 1937 in Hamburg) is a German entrepreneur and art dealer. He founded Artnet in the 1990s.
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Biography
Neuendorf studied Philosophy and Art History in Munich, financing his studies by dealing in paintings and prints. Opening Neuendorf Gallery in 1964 in Hamburg, he exhibited American Pop Art, artists being unknown in Europe prior to that time.
He represented several key figures of the art scene, such as Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Allen Jones, Francis Picabia, Robert Graham, and Billy Al Bengston as well as famed German artists Jörg Immendorf, Bernd Koberling, Georg Baselitz, A.R. Penck and Georg Karl Pfahler. He was also one of the first to support the Italian avantgarde masters Emilio Vedova and Lucio Fontana. Comprehensive art books and catalogues accompanied his exhibitions.
Neuendorf founded Art Cologne in 1967, along with fellow art dealer Rudolf Zwirner. It was the first art fair, soon to be followed by Art Basel and others.
In 1990, Hans Neuendorf founded a company with 6 co-founders that was to become artnet, the New York-based information platform for the art world. Two years later, in 1992, he became main shareholder and head of the supervisory board. Neuendorf closed his eponymous gallery in 1995 to become Chief Executive Officer of artnet.
In 2006, New York’s National Arts Club awarded Mr. Neuendorf the Medal of Honor for Visual Arts. Having pioneered the widely used price database and thus introducing price transparency in the art market, he was recognized for his unparalleled contribution to the arts.