Hans Neuendorf

Hans Neuendorf
Born	Hamburg
Nationality	German
Occupation	Art dealer, Entrepreneur, Founder Artnet
Years active	1964-today

Hans Neuendorf (born 1937 in Hamburg) is a German entrepreneur and art dealer. He founded Artnet in the 1990s.

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.

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