Roman Norbert Ketterer (February 6, 1911 in Bräunlingen -June 19, 2002 in Lugano) was a German auctioneer, gallery owner and art dealer.
Among those who worked in the Stuttgart Kunstkabinett were Roman Norbert Ketterer's brother Wolfgang Ketterer, who would later found his own auction house in Munich, as well as Wilhelm Friedrich Arntz, whose archive is now at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and Ewald Rathke, the later director of the Kunstverein Frankfurt.
[3] Between 1963 and 1985, the gallery, located on Lake Lugano, produced twenty-three catalogs offering works of modern art.
Thanks to his experience and artwork connections, Ketterer successfully establish himself as a gallery owner in the small Italian exclave of Campione d'Italia.
On September 4, 1992, the house founded by Roman Norbert Ketterer and his wife Rosemarie Ketterer (1922–2017) The new building of the Kirchner Museum Davos in Davos, which was donated to the museum, was officially opened featuring approximately 500 works and 160 sketchbooks from the estate of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, which were recorded in a catalog raisonné by Gerd Presler in 1996.