Highlights - International Art Fair Munich

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Highlights , own spelling HIGHLIGHTS - International Art Fair Munich , including Munich Highlights or Munich Highlights called, is a year in Munich organized art fair with the participation of internationally active exhibitors. From the art and antiques fair in the Haus der Kunst hervorgegange event was 2010 by the time referred to as one of the best art fairs in Germany.

The initiators of the fair are 19 art dealers who have established themselves at TEFAF (The European Fine Art Fair) in Maastricht since the turn of the millennium.

history

The art collector and antique dealer Otto Bernheimer initiated the German Art and Antiques Fair in 1956 at the beginning of the economic boom and was elected President of the German Art Trade Association. Until 1988, this art fair, which was considered the leading event of its kind in Germany, took place in the Haus der Kunst in Munich. Then the fair was moved to the exhibition center in Riem . Since it did not find the necessary acceptance there with many dealers as well as in large circles of the public, some dealers began to think about an alternative.

In 2004 Konrad O. Bernheimer , grandson of Otto Bernheimer and chairman of Pictura, the TEFAF's picture department , launched Munich Highlights , which continued the tradition of the original Munich art fair and its exhibitors. At this fair, art dealers and gallery owners shared their rooms around Odeonsplatz in Munich with international colleagues and invited the public to an art walk through the city center. The name Highlights was adopted in 2010 in the new name of the fair, Highlights - International Art Fair Munich . With its move to the Haus der Kunst, the fair returns that year to the traditional location on Munich's Prinzregentenstrasse .

In 2013 a long-term license agreement was signed with the Munich Residenz , where the fair has been taking place since 2014.

Departments

The fair is divided into the following specialist areas:

  • Ancient art
  • Medieval manuscripts
  • Old master paintings
  • 19th century paintings
  • Classic modern
  • Art on paper
  • Art after 1945
  • Objets d'art / jewelry
  • Kunstkammer objects
  • Sculptures
  • Furniture
  • porcelain
  • silver
  • textiles
  • Non-European art

literature

  • Emily D. Bilski (ed.): The art and antiques company Bernheimer, exhibition in the Jewish Museum Munich , Edition Minerva 2007
  • First German Art and Antiques Fair Munich , House of Art, Munich 1956
  • Bernheimer. Back to the Baroque , in: Der Spiegel, December 25, 1957, pp. 42–50
  • Susanne Schreiber: Attractive investment. The Munich Highlights grow to 28 participants and extend to four streets . In: Handelsblatt. Art market. 10./11./12. October 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the imprint on the munichhighlights.com page [ undated ], last accessed on June 27, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Florian Illies : Art fair: Off to Munich! The Munich highlights are Germany's newest and best art fair straight away , in: Die Zeit , No. 45 of November 4, 2010; digital
  3. ↑ n.v . : history of the fair on munichhighlights.com [ undated ], last accessed on June 27, 2019

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