Background
Werner Coninx was the son of the publisher Otto Coninx-Girardet, who had founded the Tages-Anzeiger, then as now one of Zürich’s and Switzerland’s top selling newspapers.
Werner Coninx was the son of the publisher Otto Coninx-Girardet, who had founded the Tages-Anzeiger, then as now one of Zürich’s and Switzerland’s top selling newspapers.
In the city theirs was already a leading family in terms of wealth and influence. Werner had a seat on the board of the family publishing company between 1942 and 1978, but his role within the publishing business was not an active one. Werner Coninx built up a significant art collection which was transferred, in 1973, to the Coninx Foundation.
Today the collection belongs in the Coninx Museum which occupies the house where Werner once lived, in the Hottingen district on the east side of Zürich.