Biography

Gallery Director, Edward Fritzi

Gallery Director, Mr. Edward Fritzi holds over 40 years experience as an international art and antiques broker, appraiser, restorer, and expert witness on art related matters. Listed in the National Registry of Who’s Who, Mr. Fritzi buys, sells, appraises, and restores fine works of art including Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns for discerning collectors and institutions around the world.

Until 1976, Mr. Fritzi maintained a home in Pebble Beach, California where he founded Wortsman Rowe Gallery in San Francisco. Thereafter, he moved to Beverly Hills, California. There he brokered art to private clients and museums including the Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco), the Louvre (Paris), the Getty Museum (California), the Crocker Museum (California), the Norton Simon Museum, the Foret Museum in Paris, the Renoir Family Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

In 1984, Mr. Fritzi founded and directed the Atlanta Art Gallery for over fifteen years. In 2001, he relocated to antebellum Madison, Georgia, where he appraises, restores, and brokers fine art and antiques at Madisonian Gallery located in a historic brick federal style building on the courthouse square.
Past and present clients include Dr. Armand Hammer of Knoedler Gallery, B. Gerald Cantor (Rodin Collection), Lady Epstein, Lord Admiral Casper John, Herb Alpert, Steve Martin, Barbara Streisand, Burt Reynolds, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Productions, Walt Disney Productions, and Prince Rainer of Monaco, among others.

An expert appraiser for over 40 years, Mr. Fritzi combines the latest computerized data on international sales with extensive experience as a court certified expert witness for attorneys and insurance companies including Chubb and Travelers. At the national level, Mr. Fritzi has served as an expert witness for the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bankruptcy Court on art related matters In his home state, Mr. Fritzi has appraised art for the High Art Museum of Atlanta, the Atlanta Historical Society, C & S Bank, Synovus, Suntrust Bank, Georgia Tech, Emory University, Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, and Ted Turner and Associates. In 1987, Governor Joe Frank Harris appointed Mr. Fritzi Lieutenant Colonel Aide de Camp, Governor’s Staff, for his contribution to the arts in the state of Georgia.