Simone Klein Photography & Art Advisory

Simone Klein is an impartial pictures specialist, appraiser, artwork advisor, curator, and author based mostly in Cologne, Germany.

With 30 years of expertise within the worldwide artwork market, Simone has developed profound experience and long-standing collaborations with main worldwide establishments and distinguished personal collections within the fields of Nineteenth-century, fashionable, and modern pictures.

She is publicly sworn and appointed knowledgeable on the Cologne Chamber of Industry and Commerce, area of experience Photographs Nineteenth – twenty first centuries.

Educated in France and Germany with grasp levels in Art History on the Sorbonne Paris and the University of Bonn, Simone has consecutively labored for Rudolf Kicken Gallery, Lempertz Auctioneers Cologne as Director of the Photographs Department, Sotheby’s London and Paris as Head of the Photographs Department Europe, at Magnum Photos in Paris as their Global Sales Director and at Artnet Auctions as Senior International Specialist, Photographs.

She is a member of the curatorial committee of Photo London in addition to a nominator for the Prix Pictet and The Leica Oscar Barnack Award (LOBA), director of the jury to the Felix Schoeller Photo Award, and lectures on the Donau University in Krems, Austria.

Simone is member of the German Photographic Society (DGPh e.V.) and the Association of Independent Art Experts and Appraisers  (VUKS e.V.).