Looking back on twenty years
I started out as a freelance art consultant during my last year as an undergraduate (art history). In 1986 I set up Daxer & Marschall Fine Art in Munich's prestigious Brienner Strasse with Johannes Daxer, a leading Munich collector. The timing was ideal. The university lay behind me and vistas of art-dealing opportunities before me - with a gallery in the heart of neoclassical Munich and a silent partner with sufficient financial resources to back important projects.
In the early days we focussed on late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century French applied art. Following Johannes Daxer’s retirement in 1993, I turned increasingly to early nineteenth-century painting, specialising in Northern European artists. But my art-historical curiosity was never confined to one epoch or to one field, so today the gallery deals in paintings and objects dating from the early eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century.
Trade in paintings, oil sketches and studies, sculptures and applied and decorative art is the gallery's main area of activity. We are happy to share with our clients our fascination with those aspects of nineteenth-century painting which so clearly signal the dawn of the modern era.
Participating in international art market trends has always been one of my priorities. So when the gallery was one of the first in Germany to be invited to exhibit at TEFAF International Fine Art Fair in Maastricht in 1988, I accepted immediately. Since then we have also exhibited at other fairs, such as the Inter- national Fine Art and Antique Dealers' Show in New York and Kunst-Messe München, the fine art and antiques fair in Munich.
One important result of these efforts has been the development of a network of domestic and international contacts with private collectors, museum specialists, experts and fellow dealers. This has provided a sound basis for successful dealing.
The objective has always been to discover high-quality artworks in our specialist areas and to research them thoroughly before offering them to our clients at home and abroad.
We publish well-researched catalogues on a regular basis. Among them, a catalogue of paintings published annually since 2003 in cooperation with Hamburg dealer Thomas le Claire. In partnership with my wife, Verena, who is an architect, I consult and supervise on high-quality interior design and renovation projects together with a small team of skilled restorers and craftsmen.
Benefit from our expertise in valuing, expanding or selling your collection. Our work in this areas is considerably more comprehensive, more tailored to your personal needs and more confidential than an auction house can offer.
We would be delighted to meet you at one of our fair stands or in our gallery in Munich’s Brienner Strasse.
