Werner Coninx (born & died in Zürich, 28 July 1911 – 10 March 1980)[1] was a Swiss artist, art collector and patron.
Werner Coninx was the son of the publisher Otto Coninx-Girardet, who had founded the Tages-Anzeiger, then as now one of Zürich’s and Switzerland’s top selling newspapers.
Instead he devoted his life to art while his brother, Otto Coninx-Wettstein, ran the business.
Today the collection belongs in the Coninx Museum which occupies the house where Werner once lived, in the Hottingen district on the east side of Zürich.
In January 2022, in a Die Weltwoche article entitled "Raubkunst der Familie Coninx", Christoph Mörgeli criticised the Werner Coninx collection for its lack of Nazi-era provenance research.