Rudolf Zwirner (born 1933) is a German art dealer and gallerist.
Early life
He was born in 1933, the son of the phonetician .
His brother, , (1929-2010) was a doctor.
Career
Together with his wife Ursula Reppin, he opened his first gallery in
Essen
Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...
in 1959.
They opened a second gallery in
Cologne in 1963.
In 1967, he co-founded the world's first art fair,
Art Cologne.
Personal life
He was married to Ursula Reppin (born 1935,
Breslau).
They had a daughter, Esther, and a son
David Zwirner
David Zwirner (born October 23, 1964) is a German art dealer and owner of the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City, London, Hong Kong, and Paris.
Early life and education
Zwirner was born in Cologne, West Germany. The son of art dealer Rudo ...
is also an art dealer and gallerist.
They divorced in 1974 or 1975, when David was ten, and Zwirner remarried to another Ursula.
He is now married to Dorothea, and they have a daughter, Louisa.
References
1933 births
Living people
German art dealers
Zwirner family
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