Eberhard W. Kornfeld
Eberhard W. Kornfeld (born 23 September 1923) is a Swiss auctioneer, author, art dealer and collector in Bern. Early life. Eberhard W. Kornfeld was born in Basel September 1923. After a commercial apprenticeship with a local architect he started to work in January 1945 for August Klipstein in Bern who headed the auction house Gutekunst und Klipstein dating back to 1864. Art career. The sudden death of August Klipstein in 1951 was a chance for the young Kornfeld to take over the lead of the house. The name changed from Klipstein und Kornfeld, to Kornfeld und Klipstein  and finally to Galerie Kornfeld. Controversies. Kornfeld has been involved in numerous 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. 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. Eberhard W.