Van Ham art auctions
VAN HAM Kunstauktionen is a German art auction house based in Cologne .
history
In 1959, the art historian Carola van Ham founded the auction house "Kunsthaus am Museum" as the first woman auctioneer in Europe. The focus of the house at this time was on European arts and crafts and paintings. The art historian Werner Stopp built up the painting department of the house, which at the time focused on painting of the 19th century.
In 1996, Carola van Ham-Eisenbeis handed over the management of the company to her son Markus Eisenbeis. Markus Eisenbeis transformed the auction house into an internationally competitive company. In 1999 the company moved to larger premises in the Bayenthal district . At the same time the name of the company was changed: The "Kunsthaus am Museum, Carola van Ham" has been operating under the name "VAN HAM Art Auctions" since autumn 1999.
In the summer of 2014, VAN HAM moved to a new building in Raderthal . In the building there is a 300 square meter auction room with a ceiling height of seven meters and a surrounding gallery.
Markus Eisenbeis was appointed as a publicly appointed and sworn auctioneer for art and antiques by the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry and is vice-president of the Federal Association of German Art Auctioneers
activity
Together with Lempertz , Ketterer Kunst , Karl & Faber and Villa Grisebach , the auction house is one of the leading auction houses in Germany and has another focus on modern and contemporary art. A breakthrough came in 2001 when the painting The Dentist by Gerard Dou was called up in Cologne. The wooden panel was exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1900 and auctioned off by the Berlin art dealer Paul Cassirer in 1923 . From 1929 the painting was in a private collection in the Middle Rhine region. At Van Ham, Der Zahnarzt achieved a result of 5.7 million DM , making it the most expensive painting at a German auction.
VAN HAM conducts around eighteen face-to-face auctions and twenty online auctions annually, which are divided into the themes of modern and contemporary art , ancient art , European applied arts , Asian art and jewelry and watches and are accompanied by illustrated and online catalogs and previews. VAN HAM has all objects from 1,000 euros checked for theft and looted art using the art loss register .
In addition to its main office in Cologne, the auction house has representative offices in Munich , Hamburg , Luxembourg , the Netherlands and Belgium .
Fleeting sketch with two heads, Franz von Lenbach , c.1904
The art lover . Portrait of a bearded gentleman studying a tapestry with a magnifying glass. Signed lower right: Hv Ossowski Dolega / Berlin
Portrait allegedly of Anna Louise Karsch
Susanna in the bath Carl Spitzweg , c.1849
Head study of a reading prophet , Januarius Zick
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Art Estate
In 2013, VAN HAM founded the VAN HAM Art Estate to manage and market artistic estates. This looks after the bequests of Bernd Berner , Friedrich Gräsel , Karl Fred Dahmen , Karl Hofer , Bernard Schultze , Ursula Schultze-Bluhm , Sarah Schumann , Alfonso Hüppi and Tata Ronkholz . Renate Goldmann has been the director of VAN HAM Art Estate since January 2018 .
Art Publications
VAN HAM founded VAN HAM Art Publications. After previous publications, such as the catalog raisonné on Fritz Klimsch , the catalog raisonné of paintings by Karl Hofer in three volumes as well as the catalog raisonné by the Russian painters Franz Raisonné , Boris Anisfeld and Alexei Harlamoff (each by Olga Sugrobova-Roth and Eckart Lingenauber) appeared in 2008 .
literature
- Fuchs, Ulrike: Stylish and ambitious: The appeal of bidding - The VAN HAM art house in Cologne , in: ARTPROFIL, January 2009
- Jacob, Eva-Maria: More beautiful than stocks , in: Forum - the MLP magazine, March 2009
- Kobel, Stefan: Without disputes about restitution: VAN HAM can auction Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's painting “Three Nudes in the Forest” unhindered , in: Handelsblatt, March 13, 2009
- Kobel, Stefan: Where solid prices hold up - VAN HAM defies the fall in prices, in: Handelsblatt , November 28, 2009
- Koldehoff , Stefan: That's how it works - Kirchner paintings from the Hess collection are now being auctioned , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 14, 2009
- Lorch, Cathrin: The signs point to expansion , in: FAZ, December 15, 2007
- Wohlert, Karl Bernhard: Catalog raisonné Karl Hofer , VAN HAM Art Publications, Cologne 2008
- Der Spiegel: Share with Dignity , May 18, 2009
