Galerie Michael Werner
The Galerie Michael Werner is a German art gallery. It was started in Cologne, in Nordrhein-Westfalen in western Germany, in 1969 by Michael Werner, who had taken over the Galerie Hake there. Werner showed work by post-War German artists such as Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff, A.R. Penck and Sigmar Polke. A branch was opened in New York City in 1990, in a house on East 77th Street formerly used by Leo Castelli, and re-designed by Annabelle Selldorf. A London branch opened in 2012 in Upper Brook Street, Mayfair; the first show was of work  by Peter Doig. A space was opened in Basel, in Switzerland, in 2015. In 2017 the gallery collaborated with a Brazilian gallery, Mendes Wood DM, to open Hic Svnt Dracones, a project space on East 66th Street in New York. In 2017 Michael Werner became a chevalier of the Legion of Honour, in recognition of his contributions to French culture, which included the donation of 130 artworks to the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.