Ernst Hilger Is Dead: an Unfathomable Person for the Art World

The gallery owner Ernst Hilger was a pioneer of the Viennese art business, a collector and restless mediator of contemporary art.

In 1971 he opened his gallery in Vienna's Dorotheergasse, later followed by a location in the Brotfabrik

The well-known Viennese gallery owner and art dealer Ernst Hilger died at the age of 75. This was reported by the "Kurier" on the basis of his wife. Hilger had long shaped the art market in Austria.

With its gallery founded in 1971, it minted the local art market for many decades.