Eberhard W. Kornfeld children: Did Eberhard W. Kornfeld have kids?

There is no information on the children of Eberhard W. Kornfeld, a Swiss auctioneer, author, art dealer, and collector who was mainly based in Bern.

Due to the lack of information on Kornfeld’s children on the internet, we are unable to confirm whether Kornfeld had children or otherwise.

Born on on 23 September 1923, Kornfeld passed away on 13 April 2023 at age 99. A cause of death was not given.

Kornfeld’s claim to fame in the Swiss auctionerring industry began when he started working with renowned arts dealer August Klipstein.

Kornfeld and Klipstein worked together for 6 years (1945-1951).

After Klipstein’s demise in 1951, Kornfeld took control of the auction house Gutekunst und Klipstein (which was previously headed by August Klipstein).

The auction house Gutekunst und Klipstein was renamed by Kornfeld: it was changed from Klipstein und Kornfeld, to Kornfeld und Klipstein and finally to Galerie Kornfeld.

Aside his auctioneering prowess and writing skills, Kornfeld was also embroiled in some controversies:

• In 1993, a lawsuit opposed him and David P. Tunick, a Manhattan dealer concerning the authenticity of a signature.
• In 2017, it was discovered that the son of Hitler’s art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt had been selling artworks from his secret stash in Munich through Kornfeld in Switzerland. However, Kornfeld denied selling Nazi looted art.
• In 2019 a judge ordered that two Schiele’s that Kornfeld had sold be restituted to the heirs of a Holocaust victim Fritz Grünbaum because they had been looted by Nazis.

Kornfeld was also generous and donated artworks to several museums including: the National Gallery of Art, the Norton Simon Museum, the Calder Foundation, the MoMa and the Kunstmuseum Basel.