www.thorens-gallery.com
Our company was incorporated in 1976 by Daniel
Blaise Thorens, who is still the sole owner. The
gallery started with important projects and
exhibited work by famous Swiss artists as Cuno
Amiet, Albert Anker, Giovanni Giacometti,
Ferdinand Hodler and Alfred Heinrich Pellegrini.
Works by world famous artists such as Claude
Monet, Camille Pissarro, Kees van Dongen, Edvard
Munch, Alexej Jawlensky and Paul Gauguin were also
exhibited by our gallery.
In 1982 Daniel Blaise Thorens met his future wife,
Finnish born Riitta Thorens-Hietanen. She came
from Finland to Basel to study art history at the
University of Basel, where she graduated with an
essay on "Le Corbusier as a painter". In 1987 our
gallery began to purchase original works by Le
Corbusier, and thereafter many exhibitions all
over the world contained works by Le Corbusier
owned by our gallery. We can claim, without any
exaggeration, to have become one of the principal
gallerie