Volker Diehl

Quick Facts

Full Name	Volker Diehl
Occupation	Art Dealer
Date Of Birth	May 28, 1957(1957-05-28)
Age	67
Birthplace	Arnsberg
Country	Germany
Birth City	North Rhine-Westphalia
Horoscope	Gemini

Volker Diehl Biography

Volker Diehl is one of the most popular and richest Art Dealer who was born on May 28, 1957 in Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

After graduating from high school in Warstein in 1977, Volker Diehl first studied at the Kunstakademie Münster under Hans-Jürgen Breuste, and from 1978 art history at the Free University of Berlin. In West Berlin, he supported various artists as part of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (including Markus Raetz, André Thomkins, Wolf Vostell, Dieter Hacker) and got to know René Block in this context. At the exhibition “Für Augen und Ohren” curated by Block, which was first shown at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and then at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, he was also responsible for the support of artists and thus got to know Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Joe Jones, and many other artists. A little later he became assistant to Shigeko Kubota and ran her studio. From 1981 to 1983 he was assistant to Christos M. Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal. In this context, he supported the artists and worked as personal assistant in the exhibition Zeitgeist (1982), which was “arguably one of the most historically significant global painting surveys of the 20th century”. Together with Roland Hagenberg, he subsequently published the two books Maler in Berlin (1982) and the sequel … Und (1983) in their own publishing house “HAPPY-HAPPY”, which contained numerous interviews and portraits of artists and collectors, among them Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz and Erich Marx as well as representatives of the art groups Neue Wilde and Arte Cifra. With Roland Hagenberg he traveled New York City, where they conducted interviews with Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Haring, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel, Robert Morris, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Leo Castelli, Ileana Sonnabend, Mary Boone, Tony Shafrazi, and many more. The tapes used turned out later to be defective, so the interviews were never published.

In 1983 he began to curate exhibitions at the “Galerie Folker Skulima” in Berlin as a junior partner and showed young, contemporary artists including Jaume Plensa, Rosemarie Trockel, Leiko Ikemura, Sergey Volkov, Ray Smith and Martin Assig. In September 1990 he took over the rooms at Niebuhrstr. 2 with the founding of “Galerie Volker Diehl”. In 2000 he moved to new rooms at Zimmerstr. in Berlin-Mitte, in 2007 to Lindenstraße in the Kreuzberg district. In autumn 2011 the gallery moved back to the former space at Niebuhrstraße in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In September 2013, a project space was added under the name “Diehl Cube” in Emser Straße in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, in which exhibitions were shown until 2018.

Volker Diehl Net Worth

Volker Diehl is one of the richest Art Dealer from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Volker Diehl 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Volker Diehl (born 28 May 1957 in Neheim-Hüsten) is a German gallery owner. He mainly exhibits contemporary art in the gallery “DIEHL” (Berlin).

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Vorawan Ranked on the list of most popular Art Dealer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Volker Diehl celebrates birthday on May 28 of every year.