Titze Collection Heads to Christie's Paris Auction

Key facts

• Christie's Paris will auction the Anne and Wolfgang Titze collection on October 19 as a single-owner sale titled Love Stories.
• The sale includes 39 lots reflecting Minimalism, abstraction, and post-war German painting.
• The Titzes began collecting seriously in 1995 after meeting gallerist Liliane Vincy and artist Bernar Venet.
• They regret not buying a Mark Rothko painting offered to them in the 1990s.
• Their first public exhibition was at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna in 2014, showing 200 works by 100 artists.
• The future Titze Foundation will manage the collection through donations, loans, and sponsorships.
• Wolfgang Titze defines a true collector as one who builds a collection with a strategy and treats it as a work of art.
• The art market has grown from 200–300 collectors in the 1990s to about 200,000 buyers today.