Dirk Boll

Dirk Boll (2018)

Dirk Boll (* 1970 in Kassel ) is a German art dealer .

Life

Boll studied law in Göttingen and Freiburg i. Br. After his legal clerkship in Stuttgart and Brussels, he completed a postgraduate course in cultural management in Ludwigsburg . He then did his doctorate on the structures and framework conditions of the art markets.

He has been working for Christie's auction house since 1998 , initially in London; In 2000 he became a representative in Stuttgart . From 2004 to 2011 he was managing director of the Swiss subsidiary in Zurich. In 2011 he returned to London as Managing Director for Continental Europe. He has been President of Christie's EMERI (Europe & UK, Middle East, Russia & India) since 2017.

Publications (selection)

• Art is for sale , Zurich 2009
  • Art is for sale , Ostfildern 2011 (2nd, revised edition at HatjeCantz)
  • Art for Sale , Ostfildern 2011 (English edition)
• "Distribution system and event: The auction on the international art market", University of Music and Theater Hamburg 2010 (KMM study letter)
• (Ed.): Marktplatz Museum: Should museums be allowed to sell art? , Zurich 2010
• (Ed.): A hospitable work of art - The Zurich Kronenhalle and its collection , Ostfildern 2011
• ABC of the art markets , Ostfildern 2013
• (Ed.): Heroes of the Art Auction , Ostfildern 2014
  • (Hg :): Auctioneers who made Art History , Ostfildern 2014 (English edition)

Web links

• Dirk Boll at the Institute for Culture and Media Management Hamburg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Brian Boucher: Dirk Boll Named President of Christie's Europe, Middle East, Russia, and India. Artnet . February 6, 2017, accessed March 1, 2018.