Ketterer art

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Ketterer art

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1954 (1991 conversion into a KG)
Seat Munich
management Robert Ketterer, Peter Wehrle
as managing directors of the general partner, Experts Art Service GmbH
Branch Auction house
Website www.kettererkunst.de

The Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co. KG is an international art auction house headquartered in Munich. As the best-selling auction house in Germany, the family business sells art from the 19th century, classic modern , post-war and contemporary art as well as valuable books . In addition, Ketterer Kunst regularly organizes art exhibitions .

history

In 1954 Wolfgang Ketterer founded a gallery in Stuttgart . In 1965 the gallery moved to the Villa Stuck in Munich . With twelve employees, Wolfgang Ketterer also founded a publishing house with a printing and photo typesetting shop . The gallery showed exhibitions on artists such as Ernst Fuchs , Renato Guttuso , Erich Heckel and Horst Janssen . In 1968 the company auctioned modern art in southern Germany for the first time . The first works auctioned included a pastel by Edgar Degas (estimate 250,000 marks ) and a painting by Camille Pissarro (110,000 marks). By 1983, Ketterer expanded its auction program to include specialty areas such as Art Nouveau , African and pre-Columbian art , Asian art and antiques . In 1977 the company opened a representative office in New York . In the same year, Ketterer was the first auctioneer in the world to appear in front of the desk with a digitally created auction protocol. In 1982 the company moved to the Carolinenpalais at Brienner Strasse 25. In 1989, Ketterer took over the book and art antiquarian F. Dörling in Hamburg, which was founded in 1795 .

In order to combine all business activities in one company, the Ketterer Kunst KG was founded in 1991. In 1994 Wolfgang Ketterer withdrew from the business. In 1997 Robert Ketterer took over the sole management. In 2001, Ketterer Kunst moved to the Prince Alfons Villa of Bavaria , Prinzregentenstrasse , in Munich. In 2007, Ketterer Kunst conducted online auctions for the first time. In the same year the company opened a representative office in Berlin . With the painting Nadja by the artist Emil Nolde , Ketterer Kunst auctioned a work for over 1 million euros for the first time in autumn 2007. In 2008 the company moved its headquarters to a new 3500 square meter building in the immediate vicinity of the Munich Trade Fair Center . In 2009 the Hamburg representative office was restructured. Since then, the site has focused on auctions of valuable books, manuscripts , autographs and decorative graphics . Art auctions were bundled at the newly built company headquarters in Munich. In 2009 an exhibition of pictures by the actor and painter Armin Mueller-Stahl was shown here. In 2012, Ketterer Kunst founded its third German representative office in Düsseldorf near the Malkasten House . In 2017 Ketterer Kunst showed 40 works by artists such as Max Beckmann , Norbert Bisky , Gustav Klimt and representatives of contemporary art such as Katharina Grosse , Leiko Ikemura and Rainer Fetting to mark the 10th anniversary of its representative office in Berlin . In 2019, Johann König and Robert Ketterer cooperated and showed a cross-section of the gallery owner König's program in an exhibition in Munich. This included art by Michael Sailstorfer , Jorinde Voigt and Julian Rosefeldt .

Auctions (selection)

  • In 2003, Ketterer Kunst auctioned a collection of around 800 works by the old masters , impressionist and expressionist paintings, as well as over 250 works by Käthe Kollwitz . A color lithograph by the artist achieved a record price as Kollwitz's most expensive work on paper (price 155,000 euros).
  • In 2007, Emil Nolde's most expensive small-format female portrait (“Nadja”) achieved 2.58 million euros at auction.
  • In 2011 the picture Woman with Indians on Carpet by Max Pechstein reached a sum of 3.5 million euros including buyer's premium. To date (as of 2020) this is the artist's most expensive auctioned work worldwide.
  • In 2014, Ketterer Kunst auctioned a picture by Japanese artist Kazuo Shiraga from 1961 for 3.2 million euros.
  • In 2015, Ketterer Kunst achieved a million dollar result for a work by Günther Uecker for the first time . Around 1.9 million euros for the nail image was snow beard being auctioned.
  • In December 2017, a bidder for the painting Panes and Half Panes by Ernst Wilhelm Nay won the record bid of 1.85 million euros (around 2.3 million euros including buyer's premium).
  • In November 2019, Ketterer Kunst auctioned a Bible from the Gutenberg press in Hamburg for a total of around 1 million euros. According to the company, this was the highest price ever achieved at an auction for a Bible in Germany.
  • In the same year, at an auction in Munich, a bidder bought the painting Staircase to the Castle (Murnau) by Wassily Kandinsky for 2.5 million euros.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kettererkunst.de Imprint
  2. ↑ Sabine Spindler: Record prices against the trend. Handelsblatt , December 12, 2019, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Marcus Woeller: Who is Germany's number one? In: The world . July 6, 2019, accessed June 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Brita Sachs: On the steep stairs at a high price. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 21, 2019, accessed on May 8, 2020 . ; Sebastian Späth: "If you want to make money with art, you have to buy works by women". Der Spiegel , October 16, 2019, accessed on May 8, 2020 . ; Rose-Maria Gopp: The most expensive works of art in Germany. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 20, 2019, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  5. ↑ About us. Ketterer Kunst, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Ketterer is dead. Der Spiegel , October 14, 2009, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Brita Sachs: Fruits of a Patriarch. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 16, 2009, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Annegret Erhard: Everyone stays different. Die Welt , March 28, 2020, accessed May 8, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Peter Dittmar: Better to live in an unusual way. Die Welt , December 1, 2012, accessed May 8, 2020 .
  10. ↑ a b c d Annegret Erhard: In the sign of the hammer. Weltkunst , February 22, 2017, accessed May 8, 2020 .
  11. ^ Jean-Paul Sartre for 60,000 marks. Der Spiegel , June 2, 1986, accessed May 8, 2020 .
  12. ^ Dorle Gribl : VIPs in Bogenhausen: Villas and their famous residents . Volk Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-937200-61-3 .
  13. ↑ This makes it easy to get started. In: kettererkunst.de. art - Das Kunstmagazin , October 2017, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  14. ↑ records. Ketterer Kunst, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Ketterer Kunst restructures the Hamburg location. Börsenblatt , September 16, 2008, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Anna Fischhaber: The creative lust of a Hollywood star. Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 10, 2009, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Bertram Müller: Noble address for buying art. Rheinische Post , May 23, 2012, accessed on August 5, 2020 .
  18. ^ Christiane Meixner: The Ketterer auction house is celebrating ten years in Berlin. Der Tagesspiegel , April 10, 2017, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Sabine Spindler: The program delivers what it promises. Handelsblatt , October 17, 2019, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  20. ^ Johann Reidemeister: Fränzi, lying on the water. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. May 10, 2003, accessed May 27, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Record price for "Nadja". Der Tagesspiegel , June 13, 2007, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Sabine Spindler: Germany's most expensive canvas of the year. Handelsblatt , December 17, 2011, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Auction results for the artworks by Hermann Max Pechstein. Artprice art market database, accessed May 8, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Tobias Timm: There is more. Die Zeit , December 23, 2014, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  25. ↑ 816 Günther Uecker. In: Ketterer Kunst. Retrieved May 27, 2020 .
  26. ↑ Sebastian Preuss: Why are these nails so expensive? In: The time. December 19, 2017, accessed May 27, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Annegret Erhard: Millions for the painter of the disc world. In: The world. December 16, 2017, accessed May 27, 2020 .
  28. ↑ Gutenberg Bible auctioned for one million. ZDF , November 25, 2019, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
  29. ↑ Kandinsky painting auctioned for 2.5 million euros. Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 7, 2019, accessed on May 8, 2020 .