Category: Museum Director
Nationality: German
Last Year: 42
It is not just his career that is extraordinary – early success as a curator, professor in Düsseldorf, director of the Städelschule in Frankfurt and, for almost ten years now, director of the influential Museum Ludwig in Cologne, founding along the way the decennial Skulptur Projekte Münster and Frankfurt’s Portikus – there’s also his family. The Königs have to be the single best-connected family in the artworld, from Kasper’s wife, the art dealer Barbara Weiss, to his two sons and their tremendously successful galleries in New York (Leo Koenig Inc) and Berlin (Johann König, number 88 on this list), to his brother’s publishing and bookshop emporium, Walther König Books, reaching audiences all over the world.