Galerie Kornfeld

Galerie Kornfeld is a privately owned Swiss auction house in Bern and one of the leading auction houses in Switzerland in the fields of Modern Art (paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures) as well as Old Master prints and drawings.

Heinrich Georg Gutekunst opened his gallery for Old and Modern Art in Stuttgart on 1 October 1864 and established the basis for a tradition, which remains unbroken until today and to which, since 1919 in Bern, the vital activities of Galerie Kornfeld can be traced back.

The gallery held sales and auctions that transferred numerous artworks to the United States and other countries.

The large sales room pavilion which can accommodate more than 300 auction guests is embedded in a garden laid out in the middle of the nineteenth century.

[citation needed] The experts at Galerie Kornfeld also work on publishing comprehensive catalogues raisonné of renowned artists like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,[6] Max Beckmann, Paul Klee, Käthe Kollwitz, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti.