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Benedikt Taschen (born February 10, 1961 in Cologne ) is a German publisher and collector of contemporary art. He is the founder and managing owner of Taschen Verlag .

biography

Taschen is the youngest of five children. Both of his parents were doctors. He was born in the southern part of Cologne and grew up in Cologne-Mülheim from 1963 . At the age of twelve he was already running a flourishing mail order business with used comics from the USA. Taschen attended the Städtische Hölderlin-Gymnasium in Cologne-Mülheim , where he graduated from high school in 1979. In 1980, the day before his 19th birthday, he opened a comic book shop in his hometown of Cologne, where he also offered his extensive collection of comics for sale. Soon the first comics were published themselves. From 1984 he ventured into the art book business. With the money he borrowed from his aunt, he bought a remaining 40,000 English edition of a Magritte picture book at a residual item fair in the USA at a price of one dollar each, which he was able to sell well in Germany for 9.95 DM .

Taschen discovered that the art book market, which had previously been dominated by expensive art books, left a gap: Apparently there was a market for well-designed, multilingual, inexpensive art illustrated books printed in large numbers. Beginning with a monograph on Annie Leibovitz , Taschen soon published his first art books in his previous comic book publisher. In doing so, he consciously took risks by trying out new things and releasing old things that were out of fashion. The purchase of rights from the Dutch artist MC Escher turned out to be a great success, the sale of some items outside of the printed matter less so. Successful lines were expanded, unsuccessful attempts stopped. The guiding principle for the main business remained to publish affordable books, calendars etc. for the general public with low administrative costs, whereby all areas of art were increasingly included, including architecture, design and film. In the beginning, sales took place primarily through mass and specialist bookstores without a network of representatives and without direct delivery with minimum quantities that had to be pre-packaged in certain units by the book trade. However, there are also own, mostly representative bookstores at important locations, as well as a publisher's own gallery in Los Angeles until 2018.

At the turn of the millennium, the publisher also opened up to the high-price segment, for example with limited collector's editions and individual, monumental illustrated books, such as Helmut Newton's “SUMO” and a homage to Muhammad Ali , “GOAT”. Both volumes weigh around 30 kg and cost several thousand euros. This was followed by publications in the same format on David LaChapelle , Nobuyoshi Araki , Sebastião Salgado , Annie Leibovitz , the Rolling Stones , David Hockney and David Bailey . These collector's editions are edited by Taschen themselves and, according to their own statements, usually achieve a multiple of their original retail price within a few years.

From 1996 to 2004 Taschen was married to his then head editor, Angelika Muthesius . In 1998 he acquired the Chemosphere House from avant-garde architect John Lautner in Los Angeles . He also acquired David O. Selznick's private villa, built in 1934 . Taschen has been married to Lauren Taschen for the third time since June 2005. Taschen lives in Berlin and Los Angeles.

Since January 2017 his daughter Marlene Taschen has been managing the Taschen Verlag in Cologne together with him. His son Bene Taschen runs a gallery in Cologne. His daughter Charlotte lives as an actress in Los Angeles.

Activity as a collector

Along with his publishing activities, Taschen has also made a name for himself as a collector of contemporary art since 1985. At first he concentrated on artists such as Martin Kippenberger , Albert Oehlen and Günther Förg , but since the late 1980s he has acquired numerous works by American artists such as Jeff Koons , Mike Kelley and Christopher Wool , but also by Thomas Struth and Konrad Klapheck . At the same time , he promoted artists such as Kippenberger and Wolfgang Tillmans as a publisher and thus made their work known to a wider audience. When he was 24, Taschen bought his first work of art: a Hoover vacuum cleaner by Jeff Koons. Every now and then, Taschen sold works from his collection to great media coverage, most recently in 2015 when Christie’s auctioned works by Kippenberger and Jeff Koons. In 2004 the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid devoted an extensive exhibition to its collection. ARTnews regularly counts him among the top 200 collectors worldwide. In 2013 the Städel Museum received a donation of fifteen works from its private collection to strengthen the focus of the collection on German painting of the 1980s at the Städel. In 2014 Taschen donated half a million dollars to the Wende Museum in Culver City, California to enable the establishment of an international center for the exploration and preservation of the culture, art, design and history of the Cold War. The married couple Lauren and Benedikt Taschen donated an extensive collection of young American and European artists to the MOCA in Los Angeles.

In addition to his work as a collector, Taschen is also an art dealer and gallery owner. From 2006 to 2014 he was, alongside Max-Ulrich Hetzler , managing director of Fifab First International Fine Art Berlin GmbH. Taschen has been the managing director of Taschen Art GmbH since 2014. From 2015 to 2018 he headed the Taschen Gallery in Los Angeles.

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ John Heilpern: Out to lunch - Taschen, Rhymes With Passion in Vanity Fair , October 2011.
  3. ^ A b Christian Hümmeler, Martin Oehlen: An interview with publisher Benedikt Taschen: "Trump is a tragedy". October 7, 2017, accessed on August 28, 2019 (German).
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  5. ^ Benedikt Taschen - Munzinger biography. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Willy Theobald: "Benedikt Taschen - Bilderbuchkarriere" ( Memento from March 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), FTD , December 11, 2008
  7. ↑ TASCHEN History: It all starts with comics… .
  8. ↑ Willy Theobald: "Benedikt Taschen - Bilderbuchkarriere" ( Memento from March 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), FTD , December 11, 2008
  9. ^ Munzinger-Archiv GmbH, Ravensburg: Benedikt Taschen - Munzinger Biographie. In: www.munzinger.de. Retrieved May 31, 2016 .
  10. ↑ DIE ZEIT (archive): It was just an idea of ​​the teenager Benedikt Taschen: to please the audience with inexpensive picture books. Now he is the boss of 70 people: the whiz kid . In: The time . June 11, 1993, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed August 28, 2019]).
  11. ↑ TASCHEN: LA Pop-up Gallery Pops Down. TASCHEN publisher. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
  12. ↑ ISSUU: TASCHEN Collector's Editions Catalog 2013 ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / issuu.com
  13. ↑ Die Welt: A Bunker Many Books .
  14. ↑ spiegel.de: Wherever we can, we steal - Der Spiegel 48/2001. Accessed January 23, 2011.
  15. ↑ egarch.net: Chemosphere: EscherGuneWardena. ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.egarch.net archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed January 24, 2011.
  16. ↑ latimes.com: Eight sides to this story. latimes.com. Accessed January 23, 2011.
  17. ↑ Die Welt: A House That Makes You Happy - News . wams_print - WELT ONLINE. Accessed January 24, 2011.
  18. ↑ Steven Kurutz: The Boswell of Beverly Hills: A Historian of Homes . In: The New York Times . October 4, 2018, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed July 16, 2019]).
  19. ↑ Condé Nast: LA's Burgeoning Breed of Domestic Explorers. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  20. ↑ David O. Selznick's Former Beverly Hills Estate Lists for $ 19.9M (Exclusive). Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Taschen's Wedding Gift  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in The Art Newspaper on June 14, 2005.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / old.theartnewspaper.com  
  22. ↑ Michaela Cordes: Bags for 35 years. GG Magazine, March 2015, accessed May 31, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Welcome to new Temple members… Wilshire Boulevard Temple Bulletin ( Memento of the original of October 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in issue 98, number 9 of September 1, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wbtla.org
  24. ↑ a b Benedikt Taschen | Mark Seelen Photography. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Personal details : Benedikt Taschen . In: Spiegel Online . tape January 1 , 2011 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 9, 2019]).
  26. ↑ She can do everything I can. in Handelsblatt , Rüdiger Schmitz-Normann from December 22, 2016.
  27. ^ Christiane Meixner: Art Cologne: Three days in Cologne . In: The time . April 18, 2018, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed January 21, 2020]).
  28. ↑ a b By Moritz von Uslar: Taschen Verlag: Decent, but visible to all. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Angelenos: The Special Residents of Los Angeles . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed April 17, 2020]).
  30. ↑ Ruth Polleit-Riechert: Price Development and Marketing in the Contemporary Art Market of the 21st Century from 2000 to 2007 . Ed .: Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf May 20, 2010, p. 107 ( uni-duesseldorf.de [PDF]).
  31. ↑ Face Off: Koons / Kippenberger on Christies.com from April 24, 2015.
  32. ↑ Susan Freudenheim: Singular Commitment in the Los Angeles Times , January 27, 2002, accessed June 29, 2015.
  33. ↑ Lothar Schmidt: It is nice to embarrass. Collecting is Better in the WORLD , December 6, 2004, accessed June 29, 2015.
  34. ↑ TASCHEN: Taschen Collection - TASCHEN Verlag. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  35. ^ Susanne Kippenberger: Kippenberger . eBook Berlin Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8270-7034-0 ( google.de [accessed on October 9, 2019]).
  36. ↑ Sven Michaelsen: The power . In: Robb Report . No. 7 . Jahreszeiten-Verlag, March 26, 2018, ISSN  2510-2087 , p. 154 ( uni-hamburg.de ).
  37. ↑ Linda Yablonsky: A Christie's Auction Brings Together the Art, and History, of Jeff Koons and Martin Kippenberger. In: T Magazine. April 21, 2015, Retrieved October 11, 2019 (American English).
  38. ^ WORLD: Art book publisher Taschen is auctioning two works of art . April 22, 2015 ( welt.de [accessed October 11, 2019]).
  39. ↑ Face Off: Koons / Kippenberger | Christie's. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
  40. ↑ April 22, 2015 1:00 p.m.: Publisher sells art worth millions. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
  41. ↑ Lisa Zeitz: Results: High gloss at the Rockefeller Center . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed October 11, 2019]).
  42. ^ Lisa Zeitz, New York: Contemporary Art in New York: Four Evenings for $ 650 million . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed October 11, 2019]).
  43. ↑ Lisa Zeitz: Contemporary Art: It's lonely at the top . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed October 11, 2019]).
  44. ↑ Marga Paz: Taschen Collection Catalog. TASCHEN, Cologne 2004, ISBN 978-3822840115 .
  45. ^ New York Times: Inspired, and made rich, by art .
  46. ↑ Impressions of the TASCHEN Collection and Martin Kippenberger show as seen by Eric Kroll: Letter from Madrid ( Memento from January 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) .
  47. ↑ The Editors of ARTnews: The 2012 ARTnews 200 Top Collectors .
  48. ↑ The Editors of ARTnews: The 2014 ARTnews 200 Top Collectors .
  49. ↑ Städel Blog: Back to the 80s - the Städel Museum receives a donation from publisher Benedikt Taschen .
  50. ↑ focus.de: Publishing house Benedikt Taschen takes a leading role in the renovation of the armory of the Wende Museum in Culver City (California) , May 15, 2014. Accessed August 28, 2014.
  51. ↑ Press release, MOCA : THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES (MOCA), ANNOUNCES 2012 ACQUISITIONS ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 18, 2013. Accessed May 7, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moca.org
  52. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE: Marlene Taschen: The book as an accessory. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
  53. ↑ Fifab First International Fine Art Berlin GmbH, Berlin. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  54. ↑ a b Federal Gazette. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  55. ^ Taschen Art GmbH, Cologne. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  56. ↑ Benedikt Taschen Puts Racy Artwork Up for Sale at New Gallery. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  57. ↑ TASCHEN: LA Pop-up Gallery Pops Down. TASCHEN Books. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  58. ↑ 2013 Lucie Awards Gala, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York City. and 2013 Lucie Awards Honoree, Benedikt Taschen.
  59. ↑ Amateur Photographer : Inventor of Oculus Rift VR device among RPS award winners.
  60. ↑ Instagram channel of the Consulate General Los Angeles: Consul General Stefan Schneider had the great honor of presenting Benedikt Taschen with the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany at the German Unity Festivities 2018 at the Wende Museum.
  61. ↑ Facebook channel of the Consulate General Los Angeles: Consul Consul General Stefan Schneider… at The Wende Museum.
personal data
SURNAME Taschen, Benedict
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art book publisher, founder and owner of Taschen Verlag, art collector
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne