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It features large. I collect works by artists who don‘t perform ‚l‘art need to reflect on their physicality and social geometry. In his work
pour l‘art‘ painting, but also pursue concepts. In a coherent picture, process he often combines painting and sculpture into site-specific
concept and sensuality must combine visually. It must have power. installations.
Its aura has to cast a spell over you.
Now for a question that every collector is probably asked at some point:
Can you name some artists? How did you come to collecting?

From the 1980s and 90s, for example, I own two large sets of works At kindergarten age, I was fascinated by old master paintings on Ita-
by Achim Duchow and Walter Dahn. Duchow, who unfortunately lian stamps, prompted by the exchange of letters between my mo-
died of bladder cancer in 1993, worked with Sigmar Polke for a ther and my grandmother, who lived in Merano. I collected stamps
long time and, in my opinion, had at least as much wit and ability until I reached puberty, then abruptly stopped, because I would
as a painter. For future generations, Dahn is certainly an artist who not accept that a stamp lost its value if it was missing a perfora-
produced many important students, such as Dirk Bell, Nschotschi tion tooth. After that, I became interested in old prints and pictu-
Haslinger, Friedrich Kunert, Kalin Lindener, Christof Mascher or res belonging to my maternal great-grandfather, which I received
Gert & Uwe Tobias, to name just a few. In recent years, I added as presents on a variety of occasions like birthdays, Christmas or
works by Michael Kunze, Sebastian Ludwig, Pavel Pepperstein, Ul- visits. Sometimes I used my pocket money. My great-grandfather
rich Pester, Bernd Ribbeck, Claudia Wieser, Johannes Wohnseifer, lived and worked in Merano. He was also chairman of the local art
including, importantly, a large group of works by Benedikt Hipp. I association and left my grandmother a 200 sqm apartment from
believe that he is still significantly underrated. Hipp studied in Mu- the 1850s, crammed with antique furniture, sacral sculptures from
nich at the Academy of Fine Arts with Sean Scully and Nicholas Gothic to Baroque and numerous paintings, mostly by my great-
Lang. The paintings, often done in a classical manner, feature a wide grandfather‘s hand, who was an excellent copyist of Flemish pain-
array of very unique idioms. He concerns himself with questioning ting and so probably did brisk business at the turn of the last cen-
the meaning of ritual spaces and locations as well as an individual‘s tury. Then, as a young doctor, I discovered the Jacques van Rijn

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