Hugo K. Weihe
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Hugo K. Weihe received a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Zurich where he also lectured on various subjects related to Asian art. He leads the cross-departmental business getting team for Asian art of Christie’s and is also responsible for the Indian & Southeast Asian Art Department of Christie’s based in New York. Under his leadership, the department set numerous record breaking prices. In the fast growing field of Modern & Contemporary Indian art, Hugo Weihe was the auctioneer to sell Tyeb Mehta’s Mahisasura for $1,548,000, a world auction record for any contemporary Indian painting (September 2005). His book, Die Ware Kunst (Art as Commodity), was published in 1989 by Rauhreif, Zurich. In the early 1990s, he was the publisher of Artibus Asiae, one of the most important scholarly journals in the field of Asian art, based at the Museum Rietberg Zurich, in collaboration with the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C.
