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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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Kobel's Art Weekly
Annotated press review on the art market by Stefan Kobel, published weekly. Subscribe for free
ABMB - IYKYK; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 50 2025
A well-rounded affair. After art auctions in New York broke numerous records this season, Christie's in London has now sold a well-known Fabergé egg for £22.9 million including buyer's premium, as Andy Battaglia reports in Artnews. Richard Whiddington recounts the history of the egg at Artnet. Cologne-based art insurance broker Stephan Zilkens assesses the result ... read more
photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 49 2025
In his detailed analysis of the New York auction week, Zachary Small identifies several trends for the New York Times: "But with some business strategy and a little luck, auction houses sold £2.2 billion worth of art last week. Overall, the major auctions in New York in November achieved a 77 per cent increase over the corresponding sales last year ... read more
Luxembourg Art Week, symbolic image
Kobel's Art Weekly 48 2025
There hasn't been such good news from the auction market for quite some time. Art worth around two billion dollars changed hands at last week's autumn auctions in New York. Elisa Carollo reports on Sotheby's for the Observer, Zachary Small and Julia Halperin for the New York Times (paywall may apply) and Sarah Douglas for ... read more
Zilkens' News Blog
Dr. Stephan Zilkens comments weekly on current events concerning art. Subscribe for free
If it is about (Fabergé) eggs German TV is coming. Photo Petter Börgers
Zilkens' News Blog 50 2025
Two more art weeklys from Stefan Kobel with commentary on the art market, and then Christmas arrives in the 52nd calendar week. According to the calendar, the first week of 2026 will begin on 29 December... Experienced readers of our news blog know that this is when Stefan Kobel's annual reviews are due. You can go on holiday with peace of mind, we will make ... read more
Christmas is beneath the underwear... - seen in Münster - Photo Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 49 2025
Advent, Advent, a little light... But what kind of light? The light of despair, anger, ignorance, or perhaps the hope that things will turn out for the best? In Giessen, a university town in the heart of Germany, the youth organisation of a proven right-wing extremist party is being founded, and in the course of this, speeches are being made that draw their vocabulary from ... read more
Power of resistance- Photo Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 48 2025
Christmas is in four weeks – the first Sunday of Advent is next Sunday, and one would like to believe in the beautiful and peaceful aspects of life. After the latest proposal negotiated by the USA, in particular a coward named Wittkoff, with the Russian president who is wanted by the International Court of Justice in The Hague, one wonders how this is supposed to ... read more