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On 12 April 1984, German television audiences witnessed an extraordinary experiment: during the talk show Bei Bio, host Alfred Biolek invited Korean video artist Nam June Paik to create an…
The painting Mer agitée à Pourville is one of Claude Monet’s most outstanding works and part of a series of coastal scenes he created in the early 1880s. This period marks a creative zenith for the…
Take a look at our newspaper À Jour, with which we inform you about the highlights of the upcoming autmn auctions.
When a printed ‘World Chronicle’ appeared in Nuremberg on July 12th 1493, large parts of the world were still terra incognita for Europeans. Reports about distant countries and cities often contained…
‘The moment something works, it ceases to be interesting. As soon as you have finished spelling something out, you have to put it aside.’ Rosemarie Trockel
A selection of six works by Max Ernst – three paintings, one sculpture (Lots 3235) and two works on paper (Lots 211, 212, Auction 1248, 5 June 2024) – from the Schneppenheim collection, one of the…
Imperial desk objects from a Westphalian private collection (lots 77 – 84) The Qianlong Emperor was the greatest collector and patron of the arts in the history of China. He expanded the court’s…
Take a look at our newspaper À Jour, with which we inform you about the highlights of the upcoming spring auctions.
Conceptual art recognises the artist’s actual and notable achievement in the idea, the initial spark inherent in every artwork. It is not the created or complete work that takes centre stage, but its…
The prerogative of art to depict that which does not exist and to transgress the borders of reality was pushed to the extreme by the Surrealist artists. The relationship between dream and reality was…
Painted in vivid colours with extraordinary vigour, “Self-Portrait, reclining” is an exceptional work. This is true in more ways than one. It is not just Pechstein’s first self-portrait – a fact…
Take a look at our newspaper À Jour, with which we inform you about the highlights of the upcoming autmn auctions.
Take a look at our newspaper À Jour, with which we inform you about the highlights of the upcoming spring auctions.
KPM and Kunsthaus Lempertz have been friends for many years. On the occasion of The Prussian Sale taking place on 22nd April, Alice von Seldeneck and Jörg Woltmann reveal their personal favourites…
Take a look at our newspaper À Jour, with which we inform you about the highlights of the upcoming autumn auctions.
The years of World War II marked a turning point in modern art history. The orientation of American artists to the stylistic development in the European art centres – in particular Paris – gave way…
Take a look at the new Lempertz format here: Our newspaper À Jour, with which we inform you about the highlights of the upcoming autumn auctions.
Everything is colour and light, and all art is the moment: Impressionism saw the world with other eyes and illustrated it with new means. The unprecedented light and freshness of its pictures…
Take a look at the new Lempertz format here: Our newspaper À Jour, with which we inform you about the highlights of the upcoming autumn auctions.
Lempertz has repeatedly achieved very good prices for works by the artist William Copley who began his career as an art dealer, but went on to become a painter and collector. An unusual and exciting…
This slogan could be a lyric by a rapper. But those who curiously ask about the origin of this exclamation, open up an entire epoch and a fascinating field of collecting: the art of Berlin iron…
Only a few months after the end of the First World War, the abdication of the German Emperor and the proclamation of the Republic, the political decision-makers decided to rename the venerable Berlin…
In the year 1878, the Chemical-Technical Research Institute, in the immediate vicinity of the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin in the district of Charlottenburg, not far from the Tiergarten,…
Seven kings and emperors owned the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin until it was acquired by the Berlin businessman Jörg Woltmann in 2006. At the time, it did not look good for the Berlin…
I am sometimes asked, what my guilty pleasures are. Pistachio ice cream is certainly one – even though I have decidedly restrained myself since I grew up. I couldn’t get enough of it in my childhood.…
What is suppressed eventually rebels: art history, rich in revolution, has seen many shake-ups over the centuries, but hardly any reached the intensity and impact of Expressionism which shook the…
The front of a painting reveals to the observer the beauty of a masterpiece, whereas the back of a painting tells us its history. Today, we will look at the labels on the reverse of Georges de La…
It was first in the 1979 exhibition “Europa ‘79”, held in Stuttgart, that a ground-breaking development in contemporary art became visible, represented by Italian and German artists, displaying a…
One can describe it as a sensation that this painting is on the market and now offered through Kunsthaus Lempertz, as one the one hand, the oeuvre of Georges de la Tour...
This elegant desk, decorated on all sides with splendid burr veneers and fine gilt-bronze mounts, allowing the owner to place it freestanding in the centre of a room, is part of a group of bureaux…
Collectors of 18th century European decorative arts have become rare nowadays; a fact that applies to furniture, clocks, glass, faience, stoneware, gold, silver, and porcelain alike. In recent years,…
In the 18th century, Europe’s cabinetmakers were able to produce a range of high quality and unique furniture items that remain unparalleled to this day and which are still highly sought-after in…
The exhibition “Generative Photography 1964-1968” of the artist Hein Gravenhorst is presented by the auction house Lempertz from 24th September 2020.
1845 to 2020 - Lempertz celebrates its 175th anniversary! Get a glimpse behind the scenes of the world's oldest family-owned auction house while previewing the spring auctions of photography,…
On 16 May, our traditional Prussian Sale will take place in our Berlin house. Featuring royal porcelain, outstanding silver, select paintings and high-value pieces of furniture, our experts Dr Ingrid…
How does one become a porcelain painter and why did you decide to become one? MD: You should have an interest in drawing and painting and at least a passing talent. It is also important to have good…
On 29 November, on the occasion of its 30-year anniversary, Lempertz in Cologne will auction the work "Lightness of Being" by Chris Levine in the special auction "30 Years of…
On May 17th, parts of the largest European private collection of mortars will be auctioned at Lempertz in Cologne. The Schwarzbach Collection comprises over 4000 pieces in total, which have been…
The art historian Professor Dr Olaf Peterson on the lithostone “Schaubude”, discovered in 2016, by the German artist Rudolf Schlichter, one of the most important representatives of Neue Sachlichkeit.
The contraction into a symbolic statement, the dialogue between landscape and sculpture, the abstraction related to reality and the play between the elements: our expert for modern and contemporary…
On 7 November, the wait will be over. The first part of the legendary Twinight Collection will be auctioned in Berlin!
Mario von Lüttichau, the former head curator of the Museum Folkwang in Essen and research consultant at Lempertz, about the journey, the creation and the model of the “Knienden” by Wilhelm Lehmbruck.
1918 - 1933 - Art from the period between the world wars of the 20th century. This year's spring auction of Modern Art features 66 Lots from a Rhineland private collection.
Hellmut Seemann, the director of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and docent for management of cultural institutions at Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar, is sharing his well-founded knowledge about…
On occasion of the Prussian Sale we have divided the timespan between 1701 and 1918 into chapters, introducing their most influential players, commentators, and styles. Take a look and let us…
On occasion of the Prussian Sale we have divided the timespan between 1701 and 1918 into chapters, introducing their most influential players, commentators, and styles. Take a look and let us…
On occasion of the Prussian Sale we have divided the timespan between 1701 and 1918 into chapters, introducing their most influential players, commentators, and styles. Take a look and let us…
The distinguished and renowned historian Sir Christopher Clark about Charles Amédée van Loos Portrait of King Frederick II of Prussia. Take a look and let us surprise you!
On occasion of the Prussian Sale we have divided the timespan between 1701 and 1918 into chapters, introducing their most influential players, commentators, and styles. Take a look and let us…
On occasion of the Prussian Sale we have divided the timespan between 1701 and 1918 into chapters, introducing their most influential players, commentators, and styles. Take a look and let us…
Is a private museum the fulfilment of all collectors’ dreams? A look behind the scenes of the Brandenburg-Prussia Museum in Wustrau.
A pair of candlesticks from the dinner service of Friedrich the Great. The distinguished goldsmith Alexander Hornemann describes his personal impressions.
Berlin, KPM, 1830, the decoration by Eduard Wilhelm Forst, the bronze by Werner and Mieth, Berlin.
Is that art or can it be done away with? Irritations are often part of the artistic program. Therefore it is helpful to know the origin of nonsense: Dadaism. It not only provides an introduction to…
“Photography is a pictorial depiction expressed in seamlessly merging tonal values and brought about or conveyed by the effects of light.”
In 1962, Gerhard Richter's artist book was created, featuring the figure of a man with a wide-brimmed hat as its central motif. For this depiction, Richter cuts stamp templates in various…
Rebecca Horn has the ability to relate art and space in a wonderful, at times mysterious way and, in doing so, to radiate an aesthetic as well as poetic presence...
‘Winter Village Landscape with “The Swan” Tavern’ by the Belgian-born artist Pieter Brueghel the Younger is one highlight of the 2017 Autumn Auctions...
Already famous within his lifetime, his works were coveted for their detailed compositions and vivid colouring...
Fabrizio Plessi Cariatide Mediterranea, 2001 Video sculpture, Overall dimensions 220 x 60 x 60 cm.
In 1984 Klaus J. Jacobs founded an art collection of a special kind: the collection of the Jacobs Suchard Museum in Zurich. Jacobs was interested in the reappraisal of the European product history of…
"Die Fotografie ermöglicht mir dokumentarische, als auch inszenierte Fotos zu realisieren. Gleichzeitig entstehen in letzter Zeit Strickarbeiten mit häufig politischem Hintergrund."
"Ich „bewege” das Papier zusammen mit der Farbe aus dem Moment heraus." Interview mit der Künstlerin Christine Reifenberger.
"Es galt, die Vorbilder zu überwinden und dies gelang mir in überzeugender Weise." Interview mit dem Künstler Michael Heckert.
"Als Fotografin schätze ich die […] Möglichkeit, den Moment zu bannen. Mein Leben als Archiv." Interview mit der Künstlerin Erika Kiffl.
Dr. Werner Schäfke, art historian and former director of Cologne’s city museum, directs his gaze onto the portrait Der Maler Heinrich Hoerle (The Painter Heinrich Hoerle) by August Sander and…
After the great approval in Autumn, we introduce this season’s highlights of the upcoming Spring auction in brief videos. This year we were also able to get a hold of exciting personalities,…
Interview mit der gebürtigen Österreicherin Linde Waber anlässlich unserer Auktion zeitgenössischer Kunst lempertz:projects.
“Inspiration finde ich in der Beobachtung des alltäglichen Lebens.” Interview mit dem Künstler Robert Brandy.
Der ehemalige Schüler Gotthard Graubners über seine Kunst, seine Pläne, Ausstellungen und seine Inspiration. Ein Interview mit dem gebürtigen Koblenzer.
Interview mit dem gebürtigen Düsseldorfer Künstler Manfred Müller. Zwei seiner Werke kommen in unserer Auktion lempertz:projects zum Aufruf.
Anlässlich unserer bevorstehenden Versteigerung zeitgenössischer Kunst lempertz:projects: ein Interview mit der Photographin Sonja Brass...
Ein Interview mit Petra Lemmerz. Die in Karlsruhe geborene Künstlerin lebt u. arbeitet in Düsseldorf und Italien.
Ein Interview mit dem in Berlin lebenden Künstler Oliver Lanz anlässlich unserer bevorstehenden Auktion zeitgenössischer Kunst lempertz:projects.
The black crocodile leather Kelly bag is possibly the most iconic handbag of the 20th century. The design acquired its moniker, which Hermès made into a label, after Princess Gracia Patricia - the…
Lempertz Academy: short videos and captivating articles from art experts and passionate collectors from all over the world. In our new series, you have the opportunity to explore something new and…
The exhibition, opening on 28 January at Lempertz in Berlin, presents sculptures from the various creative periods of Johannis Avramidis. After having been exhibited in Lempertz‘ Berlin branch, the…
On the 30th of April, Lempertz was celebrating its 10th anniversary of the “Berlin-Auktion” with an overly successful auction in the german capital. Many unique pieces of porcelain, silver and…