Cologne Fine Art & Antiques

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Signet of Cologne Fine Art & Antiques.

The Cologne Fine Art & Design is a year in Cologne organized exhibition for art, old art, antiques, applied art and design. It complements Art Cologne , a fair for modern and contemporary art, which is also organized by Koelnmesse . The Cologne Fine Art & Design , also Cologne Fine Art called emerged Cologne from three exhibition events in 2005: the West German art fair in Cologne , the Art Cologne and the Antiquarian Book Fair Cologne .

history

The West German Art Fair Cologne was founded as the “West German Art Fair Cologne-Düsseldorf” in 1970 and took place for the first time in March of the same year in the Artibus hall in the Düsseldorf courtyard . In its first year the show, which showed art, handicrafts, antiques and furniture from antiquity to classic modernism, had around 32,000 visitors. The trade fairs took place alternately in spring in one of the two Rhineland metropolises, in even years in Düsseldorf, in odd years in Cologne. The notional sponsor was the Rhenish Art Dealers Association (RKV ). At the second edition of the 1971 trade fair in Cologne-Deutz, 130 exhibitors had an area of ​​3500 square meters at their disposal, 35 gallery owners (for graphics and paintings), 80 antique dealers and 15 houses for antiques and ethnology took part. The 3rd West German Art Fair adopted the subtitle Art and Antiques from Antiquity to Modern Times . Since the 21st West German Art Fair in 1990, Cologne has been the only trade fair location.

The annual Cologne Antiquarian Book Fair took place for the first time in Gürzenich in Cologne in 1986 and moved to the Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle on Neumarkt in 1995 . From March 2001 it was organized in connection with the West German Art Fair Cologne in the Rheinhallen of the Cologne Fair with 37 dealers. The sponsor was the Association of German Antiquaries.

The forerunner of KunstKöln , the art multiple art fair , took place for the first time in 1992 on the initiative of the Federal Association of German Art Publishers (now the Federal Association of German Galleries and Art Dealers ) at the Düsseldorf Exhibition Center. As a common market, it was initially intended primarily for graphics dealers and editors, as well as for publishers of multiples . The Art Multiple failed in 1999 after Messe Düsseldorf had tried in vain for years to find a workable concept. The publishers' association reached an agreement with the new organizer, Koelnmesse, in 1999 and in the following year, artistically high-quality circulation sheets and objects, Art Brut, art after 1960, artist books and photography, parallel to the West German art fair , were sold at the new kunstKöln 2000 fair 102 exhibitors. Thomas Bayrle received the first kunstKöln Prize for his complete oeuvre . His “lucky clover sculpture”, a pop icon made from 4,000 small cans of lucky clover milk, was set up in the entrance area. The Art Brut collection by Arnulf Rainer , with classics such as Adolf Wölfli , Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern and Louis Soutter , was on view as a special exhibition . Four special shows were shown during KunstKöln 2003: Metamorphoses - 20 years of media art, Jörg Sasse - photographs, contemporary photography from the collection of the Rotterdam chemical company “Caldic”, and Art Brut from the collection by Bruno Decharme .

In 2003, the three spring art fairs in Cologne , West German Art Fair Cologne , the Antiquarian Book Fair Cologne and KunstKöln, counted 27,000 visitors after ten days. In 2004 the 35th West German Art Fair Cologne and the 5th KunstKöln (for editions, Art Brut, art after 1980 and photography) took place from April 21st to 26th again with a common duration. The joint vernissage was on the evening before the first day of the fair. The running time of the 18th antiquarian book fair in Cologne was overlapping from April 23 to 25, 2004. It started with a long evening opening until 9 pm for all three art fairs. The trade fairs were accompanied by extensive catalogs.

Cologne Fine Art

After the three trade fairs had previously taken place in parallel in the Rheinhallen in Cologne-Deutz, the concept was changed for 2006 - combined with the move to the new exhibition halls - and the "Cologne Fine Art" trade fair as a uniform event for these three activities of KoelnMesse educated. At the same time the fair changed from a spring to an autumn date. Gérard A. Goodrow , the director of the Art & Culture division at Kölnmesse, explained the new concept: “We want an offer that has been streamlined in terms of content and quality to around 180 participants, which ranges from antiquity to the present day and includes visual and applied arts create a top-class market platform that is internationally attractive for exhibitors, collectors and visitors ”. The first Cologne Fine Art, which replaced these former Cologne spring fairs, took place in February 2006 on one level in the upper floors of Halls 4 and 5 of the Cologne Exhibition Center. The around 190 international exhibitors, art and antique dealers, antiquarians, art publishers and gallery owners showed old and contemporary art, handicrafts, antique furniture, design classics, precious books, photography, limited edition objects, prints, young paintings, Art Brut and artist books. The Exponatec trade fair, which is taking place for the second time, was held at the same time and in the same area . Since 2007 Cologne Fine Art has been taking place regularly in autumn in the new exhibition halls in Cologne-Deutz (2012 from November 21st to 25th). From 2008 to 2012 the fair was called "Cologne Fine Art & Antiques". In 2011 the fair had around 100 gallery owners and dealers.

Koelnmesse GmbH is the organizer of Cologne Fine Art & Design. The notional sponsors of the event are the Federal Association of German Galleries and Art Dealers eV (BVDG) [in May 2007 the Federal Association of German Art Publishers BDKV] and the Rhenish Art Dealers Association (RKV). Cornelia Zinken has been the director of the art fair since 2012. In 2019, Daniel Hug, Director of Art Cologne, took over the management of the fair, which is called Cologne Fine Art & Design, until further notice.

program

Signet of the former Cologne Fine Art.

The Cologne Fine Art & Antiques is based on the core areas:

  • Classic modern
  • 19th century master
  • Furniture and handicrafts from bygone eras
  • Art Nouveau and Art Deco
  • non-European art from Africa and Asia
  • 19th and 20th century design

Second-hand bookshops also have a firm place.

In the area of ​​modernism, only works from the period before 1980 are shown; contemporary art and photography are dispensed with. The edition art (editions), which was particularly emphasized in the previous fairs, has experienced strict admission restrictions since 2008.

Fair artist award

Günther Uecker portrayed by Oliver Mark, Düsseldorf 2011
2011 award winner: Günther Uecker

In line with the history of the fair, the Cologne Fine Art Prize emerged from the KUNSTKÖLN Prize and previously the art multiple Prize and was first awarded in 1996. It is awarded by the Federal Association of German Galleries and Editions and Koelnmesse , recognizes outstanding artistic positions and is endowed with 10,000 euros. A special exhibition is dedicated to the work of the respective award winners in the year of the award ceremony at Cologne Fine Art. From 2019 the Cologne Fine Art & Design Award will be given to an exhibitor for the best stand.

Award winners

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DPA Starline: Art: Tony Cragg receives Cologne Fine Art Prize. In: Focus Online . September 25, 2012, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ art. The art magazine News from August 29, 2013: Klauke receives Cologne Fine Art Prize.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ), accessed August 29, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.art-magazin.de
  3. ↑ The Düsseldorf painter Karin Kneffel receives the Cologne Fine Art Prize endowed with 10,000 euros. ( Memento of December 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), on WDR, accessed on September 23, 2016.