Nikolaus Kolhammer has been closely connected with art since his birth due to his family history. Both parents were or are still active as art dealers, and so he grew up surrounded by antiques, paintings and antique clocks.

From 2006 he earned his first spurs in his father’s business, where he completed an art dealer apprenticeship. During this time, the desire for his own art business matured in him and soon after he opened a gallery in Vienna together with his brother Florian, specializing in Viennese Jugendstil, Loetz glass and the design objects by Hagenauer.

In 2021 the next step followed, and Nikolaus Kolhammer fulfilled his dream of running his own business. With his fine art gallery, he specializes in Viennese modernism and and arts and crafts from around 1900, as well as high-quality Austrian art after 1940. His gallery has a focus on exquisite glass objects by Loetz, Jugendstil and works by the Wiener Werkstatte. He has acquired particular expertise in the field of the Werkstatte Hagenauer. The publication of a 180 page catalog devoted exclusively to Hagenauer is certainly a highlight of his work to date. It was published in the spring of 2022 to coincide with the large Franz Hagenauer retrospective exhibition at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, to which Nikolaus Kolhammer was able to contribute some important loans.

Important names of Austrian fine art complete the program of Kunsthandel Nikolaus Kolhammer. The range spans from Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt to the established representatives of Austrian contemporary art, such as Hermann Nitsch, Franz Grabmayr, Jakob Gasteiger or Hubert Scheibl.

Nikolaus Kolhammer exhibits at the most important Austrian art fairs and regularly publishes well-researched and elaborately designed catalogs, which are very well received by his customers in Austria and abroad.