Tobias Meyer (born 1962/1963) is a German-born, New York-based art dealer.
Early life
Meyer was born near Frankfurt, Germany,
and earned a degree from the
University of Vienna
The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...
in 1988.
Career
Meyer started work for Christie's in London as a junior cataloguer.
He joined
Sotheby's
Sotheby's () is a British-founded American multinational corporation with headquarters in New York City. It is one of the world's largest brokers of fine and decorative art, jewellery, and collectibles. It has 80 locations in 40 countries, and ...
in 1992 running its contemporary art department in London.
He was Sotheby's chief auctioneer and worldwide head of
contemporary art
Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic com ...
from 1997 until his departure in November 2013.
In 2014,
The Guardian
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named him in their "Movers and makers: the most powerful people in the art world".
[
In 2016, Meyer became a member of the visiting committee for European Sculpture and Decorative Arts of ]The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 F ...
, New York.
In October 2017, ''The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' reported that Meyer has been named sole representative of and advisor to the family of the late publishing magnate Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr.
Samuel Irving "S.I." Newhouse Jr. (November 8, 1927 – October 1, 2017) was an American heir to a substantial magazine and media business. Together with his brother Donald, he owned Advance Publications, founded by their late father in 1922, wh ...
on all matters relating to his art collection.
Personal life
In 2011, he married art advisor Mark Fletcher, and they live in New York City and New Milford, Connecticut.Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect.
He is known for the design a ...
.
References
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Living people
German art dealers
German auctioneers
Year of birth missing (living people)
1960s births
Sotheby's people
German LGBT people