Ketterer Kunst’s December auction achieves sensational record breaking 3.5 million euros

MUNICH.- Max Pechstein’s masterpiece with painting on both sides achieved a sensational result of € 3.500.000* in Ketterer Kunst‘s auction of Modern and Contemporary Art. “Thus the work did not only set a new world record* for a painting by the artist, it is also the most expensive work sold in an auction in Germany in 2011“, said Robert Ketterer. With this record result Ketterer Kunst is the only auction house which accomplished the highest annual hammer price three times over the [...]

Auction house Ketterer Kunst in Munich announces sale of Modern and Post-War Art

MUNICH.- “It is a real sensation for the German art market. Works of such a remarkable nature are usually auctioned in London and New York”, said Robert Ketterer about Hermann Max Pechstein’s masterpiece with painting on both sides, which will be called up in the Munich auction on 10 December. In general, the range of offerings from Expressionism to Contemporary art is equally impressive. Modern Art This section is led by Hermann Max Pechstein’s work “Weib mit Inder auf Teppich” and [...]

Exhibition of German Expressionist Max Pechstein’s Work on View at the Ahlen Art Museum

AHLEN.- Max Pechstein (1881-1955) is one of the pioneers of German Expressionism. The retrospective presents more than 130 paintings, drawings, prints, and works of applied arts by the “Expressionist by passion”. In addition to important masterpieces by notable German and European museums and collections the show also displays less known aspects of Max Pechstein’s art, for example the earliest painting dating from 1894, some of the rare works of applied arts, privately owned graphic that has never or seldom been on [...]

Tel Aviv Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings Presents Cabinet Secrets: Prints by Jim Dine

TEL AVIV.- The scope of Jim Dine’s extended work in print attests to the pivotal place of this medium in his oeuvre at large. The concentration on the medium’s unique qualities, the attentiveness to the options revealed during the work process, the centrality of workshop practice—all these characterize Dine as a quintessential print artist.  Dine took up printmaking in the early 1960s. He was not drawn to screenprint and the photo-mechanical techniques, with their anonymous pop art look. From the very [...]

Groninger Museum Opens Exhibition of German Expressionism

GRONINGEN.- From 13 December 2009 to 11 April 2010, the Groninger Museum will present the highlights from the collection of the Brücke Museum in Berlin. The exhibition, which will be held in the Ploeg Pavilion, will display 150 works, including paintings, drawings, prints and figures by the Brücke members Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt- Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl, Max Pechstein, Emil Nolde, Cuno Amiet and Otto Mueller. The basis of the collection and the foundation of the Brücke Museum [...]