page_title: Thomas Ammann
section_title: Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Ammann / Gallery
caption_attribution_description: English: Thomas Ammann with La Femme Fleur at his Zurich gallery 1989
context_page_description: Thomas E. Ammann was a leading Swiss art dealer in Impressionist and twentieth century art, and a collector of post-war and contemporary art.
context_section_description: In 1977 Ammann established his own gallery, Thomas Ammann Fine Art which was soon visited by major collectors. Its patrons included Giovanni Agnelli, Gustavo Cisneros, David Geffen, Ronald Lauder, Dinos Martinos, Samuel Newhouse Jr, Stavros Niarchos, Ronald Perelman, Yves Saint Laurent and Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza.
  From his villa by Otto Rudolf Salvisberg on the hill of Zurich, his chalet in Gstaad or his apartment at the Pierre in New York, Ammann dealt mainly in paintings and sculpture by twentieth century artists including Francis Bacon, Balthus, Max Beckmann, Constantin Brâncuși, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Barnett Newman, Pablo Picasso and Mark Rothko.
  Due to Ammann's discretion and secrecy in business, only a few prime examples of artworks which found way into the world's great museums through his hands are known, such as Max Ernst's The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus Before Three Witnesses in the collection of the Ludwig Museum in Cologne or Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Joseph Roulin which Ammann sold to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  Ammann was a major player in the international art auctions in London and New York. The press noted "his presence in the worlds salesrooms created a mood of optimism, whatever the market conditions, and his enthusiastic bids for paintings by Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol were driven by genuine passion as much as potential profit". Ammann started organizing at his gallery from 1987.
  Thomas Ammann Fine Art today is directed by Ammann's second oldest sister Doris, who joined the gallery in the late seventies and worked as its financial administrator  until her brother died in 1993. Thomas Ammann Fine Art exclusively represents the work of Brice Marden in Europe and since 1999 works closely with The Willem de Kooning Foundation, New York and represents the artist's work in Europe.
  Tobias Mueller Ammann, his sole nephew, is managing director of Zurich's Galerie Bruno Bischofberger since 1995, after working for Christie's  in  London and Athens.
caption: Thomas Ammann at his Zurich gallery, 1989
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