Kotte autographs

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Kotte Autographs GmbH is a German antiquarian bookshop that deals in autographs .

history

Thomas Kotte (* 1968 in Füssen ) started collecting autographs from athletes and film stars as a teenager . From 1991 to 1996 he studied business administration and then worked as an antiquarian. In 1996 he founded  his company Kotte Autographs - initially in Stuttgart - which is now located in Roßhaupten .

Kotte Autographs specializes primarily in autographs. So far, 51 extensive catalogs have been published. In it, Kotte describes in detail the objects on offer that are primarily of source value for historical sciences. At the same time, however, he offers “beautiful examples” for collectors who “look for a special closeness to the person in handwriting”. Kotte is represented at important antiquarian fairs around the world, including in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Zurich, Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart.

The company is a member of the International League of Antiquaries , the Professional Autograph Dealers Association and the Association of German Antiquaries. Kotte works closely with the Viennese antiquarian bookshop Inlibris, Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH . According to Weltkunst , Kotte and Inlibris are “obliged to the classic antiquarian bookshop”, but not only serve the bibliophiles , but also the “relic collectors”.

Kotte Autographs is assigned to the “high price segment”. According to Bernhard Fischer, director of the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar, Kotte Autographs is "known as an absolute pharmacy" by experts.

Kotte Autographs offered previously lost manuscripts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ludwig van Beethoven , Joseph Haydn , Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , Franz Kafka , Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Heinrich Heine , Friedrich Schiller , Lucas Cranach the Elder. Ä. or Mick Jagger . In 2015, Kotte sold letters from Walter Scheel , in which he spoke about Willy Brandt , who had recently died in 1992 . In 2016, Kotte offered a first edition of the witch's hammer .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Mareike Hennig: From the second-hand bookshop catalogs: Pocket crumbs and more little things. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 25, 2012.
  2. ^ Kotte Autographs , New York Antiquarian Book Fair.
  3. ↑ Exhibitor List ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , California International Antiquarian Book Fair. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cabookfair.com
  4. ↑ Exposants , Salon International du Livre Rare & de l'objet d'art.
  5. ↑ a b Stefan Kobel: Antiquarian book fairs: Nice cheap - art on paper. In: Handelsblatt . January 21, 2017.
  6. ↑ Felicitas Rhan: Stuttgart antiquarian fairs: mushrooms, ABC-Schützen and a lock. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 28, 2016.
  7. ^ Kotte Autographs GmbH , International League of Antiquaries
  8. ^ Kotte Autographs , Professional Autograph Dealers Association.
  9. ^ Kotte Autographs , Association of German Antiquaries.
  10. ↑ a b Rüdiger Heinze: Kafka's pass, Schiller's Locke, Jagger's signature. In: PressReader.com. Augsburger Allgemeine , January 20, 2016.
  11. ↑ a b art trade / educated citizens for antiquarian bookshops! , Weltkunst , March 12, 2016
  12. ^ Michael Helbing: Classic investment with Schiller, Goethe or Wieland. In: Thuringian General . January 22, 2015.
  13. ^ Antiquarian sells correspondence from Walter Scheel. In: Südwest Presse . September 10, 2015.
  14. ↑ Klaus Graf : Donaueschinger Inkunabel at Antiquaria Ludwigsburg , Weblog Archivalia , January 5, 2016
  15. ↑ M12484 Institoris, Henricus and Jacobus Sprenger: Malleus maleficarum , complete catalog of the Wiegendrucke