Introduction
Thierry Ehrmann (born 1962) is the founder and current chairman of the Serveur Group,. He was born in Avignon. He works from his house which has been transformed into the artwork Abode of Chaos. He's on the far left of the political French spectrum. He is a freemason, and had founded his own lodge (Faits et Documents, n° 117, 2001, p. 1-2, 6).
Serveur Group & Artprice.com
The Serveur Group manages databases of art auction quotations. The group has about 400 employees and annual revenue of about 70 million Euros. The information is administered from the ArtPrice website, which is the legal and auctions interface to the group.
Artprice.com compiles and updates art reference databases that cover art auction prices, artist biographies and artworks images from its library of 290,000 auction catalogues. It is listed on Eurolist by Euronext Paris (ARTF/PRC). Artprice has been accused of using spam marketing campaigns.