Volker Volkens

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Volker Volkens (* 1943 in Kiel ) is a German art collector from Karlsruhe .

Private collection Iris and Volker Volkens

The private collection Iris and Volker Volkens comprises around 2000 objects, mainly paintings by the artist Horst Antes , original graphics from the field of Pop Art as well as pre-Columbian and indigenous art ( painting , textile art , sculptures ). Volkens' Mola collection of the Kuna is considered to be the largest of its kind in Europe with around 1500 pieces. Some of the works come from the private collection of the American ethnologist and collector Kit Kapp .

Volkens made exhibits from his also extensive Kachina collection of the Pueblo tribe of the Hopi available on loan, so that some of them could be viewed publicly for the first time on various occasions. For the 2014 Friedrichshafen exhibition of the gallery owner Bernd Lutze with 60 Kachina figures, the Volkens private collection, along with the Antes Foundation, provided most of the works on display ; this was probably the first Hopi Kachina exhibition in Germany.

To mark its provenance , his friend Horst Antes designed a personal collector's stamp especially for Volkens.

Exhibitions on the collection (excerpt)

  • 2017: Kachina figures of the Pueblo Indians. Gallery Clemens Thimme, Karlsruhe.
  • 2016: Capital. Guilt, territory, utopia . National Gallery Berlin .
  • 2014: Kachina figures of the Hopi Indians. Gallery Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen .
  • 2012: Molas, Textile body images of the Kuna Indians from the Volkens Collection, Karlsruhe . Göppingen Art Gallery .
  • 2012: In the footsteps of collectors and Mola researchers. Molas. Textile body images of the Kuna . Filseck Castle .
  • 2007: Textile art of the Kuna Indians from Panama . Kunstverein Ulm , Galerie Sebastianskapelle, Ulm.
  • 2005: Horst Antes - drawings 2005 . Gallery Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen.
  • 1994: Horst Antes. The private collection of Iris and Volker Volkens . Wiligrad Castle , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
  • 1994: Horst Antes. The private collection of Iris and Volker Volkens. Artist group Die Burg , Burg zu Burghausen .

Literature for the collection

  • Horst Antes, Edith Conrad, Volker Volkens: Horst Antes. Private collection Iris and Volker Volkens Kaiserallee 109 . Altoetting 1994.
  • Werner Meyer, Alice Wilke: Molas: textile body images of the Kuna Indians: from the Volkens collection, Karlsruhe . Göppingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-927791-76-3 .

Publications

Volkens is significantly involved in the maintenance and preparation of Horst Antes' catalog of works . So far published in this context:

  • Horst Antes, Catalog raisonné of paintings, Volume 11, 2004 to 2012. Swiridoff Verlag, Künzelsau 2017.
  • Horst Antes. Catalog raisonné of paintings, Volume 2: 1965 to 1968. Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2017, ISBN 978-3-89929-177-3 .
  • Horst Antes. Catalog raisonné of paintings, Volume 3: 1969 to 1971. Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2014, ISBN 978-3-89929-178-0 .
  • Horst Antes. Catalog raisonné of paintings, Volume 10: 1997 to 2003. Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2015, ISBN 978-3-89929-185-8 .
  • Horst Antes. Catalog raisonné of paintings, volume 9: 1993 to 1996 . Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2013, ISBN 978-3-89929-184-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Horst Antes, Edith Conrad, Volker Volkens: Horst Antes. Private collection Iris and Volker Volkens, Kaiserallee 109 . Altötting 1994, p. 32 .
  2. ^ Friedrichshafen: Indian art in the gallery Lutze. In: SÜDKURIER Online. November 5, 2012, accessed April 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b NEWS of August 2nd. In: swp.de. August 2, 2012, accessed April 18, 2017 .
  4. ^ Eliane Dotson: The Life and Work of Kit Kapp. (PDF; 367 kB) (No longer available online.) In: oldworldauctions.com. Archived from the original on April 19, 2017 ; accessed on April 18, 2017 (English). 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 / www.oldworldauctions.com
  5. ↑ a b Friedrichshafen: Art from the mythical world of the Indians. In: SÜDKURIER Online. November 7, 2014, accessed April 18, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Small head with two rings by Horst Antes - archive. In: van-ham.com. Retrieved April 18, 2017 .
  7. ↑ exhibitions. In: galerie-thimme.de. Retrieved April 18, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Eugen Blume, Catherine Nichols (ed.): Das Kapital. Guilt - territory - utopia. The works . Berlin 2016.
  9. ↑ Werner Meyer, Alice Wilke: Molas: textile body images of the Kuna Indians: from the Volkens collection, Karlsruhe . Göppingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-927791-76-3 , p. 134 .
  10. ↑ Opening of the exhibition: Textile Art of the Kuna Indians from Panama. In: ulm.de. November 25, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2017 .
  11. ^ Friedrichshafen: Drawings by Horst Antes. In: SÜDKURIER Online. March 29, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2017 .
  12. ↑ artist group CASTLE in 84489 Burghausen. Retrieved April 19, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Volkens, people
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel