Insurance for
art historians
Individual insurance solutions, even if you do not belong to a professional association.
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Individual insurance solutions, even if you do not belong to a professional association.
Get startedFor the members of German art history association “Deutscher Verband für Kunstgeschichte e.V.”, we have developed a professional liability insurance policy and a financial loss insurance policy on particularly favourable terms.
If you are not a member of a professional association, we also have the right individual solution for you.
Dr. phil. Stephan Zilkens
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We have conceived special insurance solutions to meet our clients’ individual needs with very competitive conditions. For members of the German art history association “Deutscher Verband für Kunstgeschichte e.V.” (kunstgeschichte.org), we provide a professional liability insurance and an errors and omissions insurance specially designed for professionials in the art world.
Even if you are not a member of a professional association, we have individual insurance solutions, either flexible or made-to-measure, for art historians.
We will need you to fill out and sign the application form as well as the completed brokerage contract so that we can realise the offer with insurers. We regret that the whole documentation will be in German only:
Please send us the signed application and the brokerage contract as scanned images (info@zilkens.com), fax: +49 221 80068421 or by post: Zilkens Fine Art Insurance Broker GmbH, Eupener Straße 74, 50933 Cologne, Germany.
If, in the course of your occupational activities, you harm third parties or such parties come to grief because of you or your occupational activities, be the damage physical, material or financial, you can be made liable in accordance with § 823 of the German Civil Code (BGB). To protect you from such financial demands, we offer you the option of insurance cover in the form of professional liability insurance and pecuniary damage liability insurance. The insurer settles justified claims and contests unjustified claims on your behalf. Below, we show a few practical examples for the sake of clarity and understanding.
Examples of damage covered by classic professional liability insurance for art historians:
Examples of damage covered by errors and omissions insurance for art historians:
Please talk to us about it. We’ll be glad to advise you.
It is the love of art and the absolute satisfaction of our clients that has made us so successful for more than 35 years.
We deliberately focus on the things we know something about and have experts for all essential areas of risk management and occupational pension provision. For special requirements, we can draw on our network of experienced specialists.
Few insurance brokers have such a broad range of experience in all areas of insurance. Through many years of experience, both with insurance companies and insurance brokers, and always in close contact with our clients, we have learned to speak all the necessary languages. We have been able to develop our current expertise through many years of working for other companies. Innovation is our constant companion.
Zilkens Fine Art Insurance Broker GmbH is an owner-run (CV Dr. Stephan Zilkens) company. This lends a special significance to our corporate philosophy, as the owner vouches with his name for the company’s services and performance.
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.
To fulfil our aspiration of providing reliable orientation in an increasingly complex world, we adhere to a set of ethical and moral principles. The quality of our work plays a special part in this process. We want to and can distinguish ourselves only with excellent performance and customer satisfaction.
We endeavour to advise our customers neutrally and in the optimum manner with a high level of expertise. Reliability is seen as something special these days, but we live and breathe it on a daily basis. We always search for the the best and safest solution because we have geared our customer relationships to the long-term.