Kovacek Gallery
The gallery Kovacek is a Vienna gallery , which was founded in 1973 by Michael and Regine Kovacek. Sylvia Kovacek has continued the company tradition of the gallery founded in 1973 since autumn 2005. The gallery is located in the center of Vienna on Spiegelgasse.
History and gallery program
In 1973 Michael and Regine Kovacek founded the Kovacek Gallery in downtown Vienna. Sylvia Kovacek has been running the gallery since autumn 2005. In terms of content, the program has not changed. The gallery specializes in Central European glass from the Renaissance to the 1950s and painting from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The focus of glass is on enamel-painted glasses from the 16th century from Venice or Hall in Tyrol , cut and engraved goblets from the 17th and 18th centuries from Silesia or Potsdam, etc. The Biedermeier period is represented by richly painted cups by Anton Kothgasser, Gottlob and Samuel Mohn and by Johann Joseph Mildner. Selected pieces from the Gallé and Daum manufacturers or from Lötz in Bohemia should not be missing from the time around the turn of the century. The final point is made up of well-known designs by designers of the glass studios on Murano from the 1950s and 1960s.
The painting program begins from the Austrian Biedermeier period with artists such as Rudolf von Alt , Friedrich Gauermann , Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller to Emil Jakob Schindler , Olga Wisinger Florian or Tina Blau . The time of classical modernism is represented by works by Gustav Klimt , Egon Schiele , Oskar Kokoschka , Koloman Moser and Carl Moll . Expanded with artists from the German Expressionism . Names like Emil Nolde or George Grosz shouldn't go unmentioned. The offer is continuously rounded off by works of established art after 1945: such as Arnulf Rainer , Markus Prachensky , Wolfgang Hollegha , Sabine Wiedenhofer and Josef Mikl .
Every year four to six exhibitions are held in the gallery rooms, each of which is accompanied by a catalog. The individual presentations are devoted to different epochs , with the focus on Biedermeier painting and mood impressionism, or more on classical modernism and art after 1945 .
Galerie Kovacek regularly takes part in Austrian art fairs such as Art & Antique in the Vienna Hofburg and art Austria in Palais Liechtenstein . The gallery is represented internationally at the Highlights in Munich , Cologne Fine Art and BRAFA in Belgium .
Family history
The family names Kovacek and Zetter stand for a large family of Viennese art dealers: The first generation includes the siblings Christa Zetter with the gallery at the Albertina Zetter , Michael and Regine Kovacek (Kovacek gallery) and Peter Kovacek with the Kovacek art salon. In the second generation, four out of six children work in the art trade.
Web links
- Literature from and about Galerie Kovacek in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- www.art-port.cc www.art-port.cc
- www.artnet.de www.artnet.de
literature
- Olga Kronsteiner: A mixture of regional and international . In: The world . Art market department . August 2, 2008, p. 30 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Olga Kronsteiner: A mixture of regional and international . In: The world . Art market department . August 2, 2008, p. 30 .
- ↑ Art for the bacon belt. The press . September 30, 2017, accessed March 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Olga Kronsteiner: Black limousines are a blessing in the art trade. The world . September 22, 2007, accessed March 11, 2018 .