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Zilkens' News Blog 37 2024
This week, I am leaving the pen entirely in the hands of Stefan Kobel, who has intensively studied and commented on the press coverage of the art market.The staff in our office are happy to answer your questions. On that note, have a constructive weekStephan Zilkens and the team at Zilkens Fine Art Insurance Broker GmbH in Solothurn and Cologne read more
Zilkens' News Blog 36 2024
In some parts of Germany today, it feels like waking up with a proper hangover. In 1989, the people of the GDR shouted ‘wir sind das Volk’ and achieved the incredible: the Berlin Wall fell and Germany was reunified. Today in Thuringia and Saxony, almost 50% of the almost 75% of those eligible to vote have opted for parties that pursue a different political concept ... read more
Zilkens' News Blog 35 2024
Good morning, has your sense of security been shaken by the terrible knife attack in Solingen? Young people stab at random at people standing around them, whose only mistake is to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, where an Islamist radicalised on the internet thinks he has to pave his way to heaven. Weapons bans do not help here, but, as it ... read more
Zilkens' News Blog 34 2024
Good morning, I'm still angry, even though three days have passed since the coalition parties agreed on the German budget for 2025. No, it is not the lack of respect for culture, which is also hidden in this, that is causing my anger, but the address of devotion to the Russian genocidist and aggressor, which is probably based in the chancellery: Look, we will make ... read more
Zilkens' News Blog 33 2024
A very good morning on the first day after the Olympics in Paris – the whole thing is really over now, but that hasn't meant 14 days of peace in the world. In Gaza and Israel, the fighting continues. Russia is still bombing Ukraine and is striving for a peace dictated by the aggressor, which Michael Kretschmer, the Prime Minister of Saxony, is latently supporting ... read more
Zilkens' News Blog 32 2024
Only 20 weeks left and then this year will be over. The art market will be quiet for the next four weeks, apart from a few local events. The opposite is true for seasonal business, if you compare it to tourism. After these four weeks, elections will be held in three eastern German states - and everyone will be staring at the oracles of the ... read more