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A warm welcome to Zilkens Fine Art Insurance Broker GmbH, your specialised insurance broker who finds answers to your art-related insurance questions.
We offer to find the best insurance for your art - at no cost to you.
Insurance products are complex. Being well-insured is therefore no easy task. There are numerous types of art insurance on offer, but which is the right one for your project?
It is often the case that the quality of insurance policies does not become evident until a claim arises. That is why, together with our customers, we prepare an individual insurance concept that is adapted sensitively to the respective customer’s project and describe to you the features of some of our individual insurance products.
Two characteristics define our brand essence. One is our love of art and the other is our customers’ absolute satisfaction. Only the consonance of these two factors makes us successful. Learn more about us
Dr. phil. Stephan Zilkens
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Brafa in Brussels, Photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 5 2025
Christiane Meixner is delighted with Brafa's 70 years in the , as reported by Artmagazine. Congratulations! read more
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Kobel's Art Weekly 4 2025
The dance on the volcanic ash is taking place. Matt Stromberg brings the good news at Hyperallergic: ‘Perhaps the biggest question lingering in the air was about the fate of the fair week's behemoth, Frieze, which tends to have a much larger proportion of international and non-local participants than the smaller fairs. On Friday afternoon, January 17, the fair finally ... read more
Handelsblatt's Susanne Schreiber at a talk in Cologne. Also online: https://vimeo.com/1045356929
Kobel's Art Weekly 3 2025
Last year was, to a large extent, just another Monday, and 2025 promises to be quite turbulent also. In recent weeks, reporting has been characterised by retrospectives and outlooks. Ursula Scheer has compiled a series of pictures with last year's top ten hammer prices in the FAZ. The major global auction houses had to cope with a sharp decline in ... read more
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Paper Positions, Berlin 2022
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Zilkens' News Blog 5 2025
One natural disaster followed the next. Storm Éowyn swept across Ireland in particular with wind speeds of up to 183 km/h, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. The damage is immense and the duration of the clean-up work remains unpredictable. Insurers must be prepared for billions in losses.On Tuesday, the power of the wind was illustrated at the American embassy in Berlin by ... read more
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Zilkens' News Blog 4 2025
Hollywood Hills is synonymous with wealth and exclusivity, but California's wildfires could become one of the most expensive natural disasters in US history in terms of insured losses. Forecasts by Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs estimate potential insured losses of up to 30 billion US dollars.The fires are putting further pressure on the already ailing property insurance sector in California. Many property insurers, including Allstate ... read more
Price for Art Critics - Art Cologne 2015, Stefan Kobel
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Zilkens' News Blog 3 2025
The devastating fires in Los Angeles and California have so far destroyed around 10,000 buildings and paralyzed the cultural sector. The first galleries and private homes of artists were destroyed. Artists' residences such as the Villa Aurora were damaged, the Thomas Mann House was evacuated and museums and galleries are still closed. Fortunately, the Getty Villa was spared, although parts of the garden were burned.At ... read more