Dirk Boll, 1970, hat in Göttingen und Freiburg/Br. Rechtsanwalt studiert und praktizierte in Stuttgart und Brüssel, bevor er sich mit einem Aufbaustudium »Art Management« dem Kunstmarkt zuwandte. Er begann seine Karriere bei Christies 1998 in London. Seit 2005 ist er Geschäftsführer für die Deutschschweiz sowie European Director, Christies International.

Procurement analysis, sales planning, customer orientation, brand management-the art market is changing more rapidly than ever before. The price that a work of art commands influences its place in the art-historical canon. Auction houses have become dominant avenues of distribution, as have art fairs, galleries, and art dealers. Even today the ritual dra-maturgy of the auction resembles an archaic compe-tition, which can leave participants speechless and captivate bystanders. At the center of the action is the auctioneer, whose performance is increasingly critical to the success of the auction. With portraits of auctioneers, this volume tells the story of the art auction business. Key events that played out in cities such as New York, Paris, Zurich, Berlin, Stuttgart, and Pompeii come alive and show how the auctioneer is emerging from the anonymity of a service provider and stepping into the limelight as the star of the show. (Deutsche Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-7757-3902-3) In conjunction printed volumes (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3902-3, English edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3903-0) are also available.

Procurement analysis, sales planning, customer orientation, brand management—the art market is changing more rapidly than ever before. The price that a work of art commands influences its place in the art-historical canon. Auction houses have become dominant avenues of distribution, as have art fairs, galleries, and art dealers. Even today the ritual dra­maturgy of the auction resembles an archaic compe­tition, which can leave participants speechless and captivate bystanders. At the center of the action is the auctioneer, whose performance is increasingly critical to the success of the auction. With portraits of auctioneers, this volume tells the story of the art auction business. Key events that played out in cities such as New York, Paris, Zurich, Berlin, Stuttgart, and Pompeii come alive and show how the auctioneer is emerging from the anonymity of a service provider and stepping into the limelight as the star of the show. (Deutsche Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-7757-3902-3)In conjunction printed volumes (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3902-3, English edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3903-0) are also available.

DIRK BOLL – A Cultural History of the Art Auction in 14 PortraitsDIRK BOLL – 1 London 1766CELINA FOX – 1 James Christie – The Power of Place, Promotion and PersonalityDIRK BOLL – 2 Pompeii 1875DIRK BOLL – 2 Lucius Caecilius Iucundus Messages from the Art Market in AntiquityDIRK BOLL – 3 London 1882CHRISTOPHER MAXWELL – 3 The Hamilton Palace Sale and a Global MarketDIRK BOLL – 4 Berlin 1916–1932WALTER FEILCHENFELDT – 4 Paul Cassirer 81 Auctions between 1916 and 1932DIRK BOLL – 5 Lucerne 1939STEPHANIE TASCH – 5 The Antihero Theodor Fischer and the Auctioneer in the Age of ExtremesDIRK BOLL – 6 Stuttgart 1947–1962URSULA BODE – 6 Roman Norbert Ketterer, or the Return of ExpressionismDIRK BOLL – 7 Bern 1951WOLFGANG WITTROCK - 7 Eberhard Kornfeld Connoisseurship and TraditionDIRK BOLL – 8 London 1957–58 and 1977DAVID NASH – 8 Peter C. WilsonDIRK BOLL – 9 Basel 1964BRIGITTE ULMER – 9 Anke Adler-Slottke Stamps and the First Woman AuctioneerDIRK BOLL – 10 New York 1990JAMES GOODWIN – 10 Starry, Starry Night: Dr Gachet, Christopher Burge and Hideto KoyabashiDIRK BOLL – 11 New York, London, Geneva and Zurich 2000–01DANIELLA LUXEMBOURG – 11 The Dream of a Boutique Auction House Phillips, de Pury & LuxembourgDIRK BOLL – 12 Paris 2001–2009ALBERT KRIEMLER – 12 Meeting Saint LaurentDIRK BOLL – 13 New York 2004ROSE-MARIA GROPP – 13 Tobias Meyer and the Rise of American Post-War ArtDIRK BOLL – 14 New York 2013UDD TULLY – 14 Echoes of a Landmark Sale Jussi Pylkkänen on the RostrumDIRK BOLL – 15 The Day-to-day Business of AuctioneeringAMIE SIEGEL – 16 Circuit: ProvenanceBARBARA BONGARTZ – 17 A Bid for Love The Heir by Vita Sackville-WestTHIS BRUNNER – 18 Best Offers The Top 12 Auctioneering Scenes in Feature FilmsEndnotesAppropriation List – Auctioneering in Books, Movies, and Popular CultureAbout the ContributorsAcknowledgementsPhoto Credits