Im Kinsky

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Auction house im Kinsky GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1992
Seat Vienna , Austria
management Michael Kovacek and Ernst Ploil
( managing directors )
Branch Art auctions
Website www.imkinsky.com

The auction house im Kinsky is an art auction house founded in Vienna in 1992 . It is located in Palais Kinsky in the inner city - hence the frequently used abbreviation for the auction house: Im Kinsky . The im Kinsky is beside the new established in 1707 Dorotheum the most important art auction house in Austria. The auctioneer of the house is Michael Kovacek.

Locations and priorities

The Kinsky Palace in Vienna

In addition to the administration, the showrooms and warehouse of the auction house im Kinsky GmbH are located in Palais Kinsky . There are also representatives for the Austrian and German federal states of Carinthia , Upper Austria , Salzburg , Styria and Southern Bavaria .

Exhibition rooms in the Kinsky

The auction house holds several auctions each year, with the focus of the house on Austrian art. In particular, the Classical Modern and Contemporary Art divisions, whereby the Art Nouveau, Antiques, Asian, Old Masters and 19th Century paintings also make a not inconsiderable contribution to annual sales.

Auctions

Auction room in the auction house

In the almost 90 auctions of im Kinsky so far , many record results have been achieved on the Austrian art market. With the auction of Egon Schiele's Girl from 1917 at a price of 3,562,400 euros, Im Kinsky achieved the highest price ever achieved in Austria for a work of art, which is still valid today. Other highs were achieved by Egon Schiele's view of Krumau with 1,233,000 euros, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller's The End of School Lessons with 1,061,000 euros and Gustav Klimt's Helene with 1,037,000 euros. This means that im Kinsky holds four of the five highest surcharges that have ever been achieved in Austria. In 2010, Egon Schiele 's The Procession was auctioned at the Kinsky for 4,437,400 euros.

On April 12, 2016, at the request of the French Ministry of Culture and the freezing order of the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office im Kinsky, the auction of the portrait of a gentleman by Bartholomeus van der Helst from 1647, which had been stolen by the Nazis in 1943 , stopped .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information in the imprint ( Memento from December 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b Dorotheum and "im Kinsky" achieve record sales Die Presse, June 29, 2007, last accessed April 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ imkinsky.com: Indication of the representatives with sphere of activity ( Memento from December 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Wirtschaftsblatt ( Memento of September 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) - Not available April 12, 2016.
  5. ↑ Overview of the maximum prices achieved so far for individual works of art ( Memento from January 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ The Most Expensive Girl Die Welt Online, October 26, 2003, last accessed April 12, 2016.
  7. ↑ Im Kinsky, We About Us ( Memento from December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 35 kB)
  8. ↑ Exhibit on the auction house's website ( memento from March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) - not available April 12, 2016.
  9. ↑ artdaily.org: Schiele's 'Procession' Sells for euro4.4 Million at im Kinsky Kunst Auctions GmbH Auction House November 10, 2010, last accessed April 12, 2016.
  10. ^ Looted art: auction "im Kinsky" stopped orf.at, April 12, 2016, accessed April 12, 2016.