Kinsky Blog

Michael Kovacek "If you inherit art, it is often not clear what commercial value it represents. My tip is therefore: Simply take photos of the room and send them to [...]
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In this interview, the owners of imKinsky look back on a challenging year and offer exciting insights into the future of the art market. How did you feel in March [...]
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Arik Brauer - painter, songwriter, architect, singer, dancer and set designer - was born on January 4, 1929 in Vienna-Ottakring into a Jewish family. He survived the Nazi rule as [...]
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The most expensive Lot The absolute Highlight and most expensive Lot in 2020 found a new owner during our auction in June. It is a large painting in two parts [...]
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An amazing highlight from the department of Antiques is a tower monstrance made of gilded silver from the Belgian workshop Bourdon from 1892. Expert Sabine Hofer explains its particularities. What [...]
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Anja Wolf: We both are fascinated by the Koloman Moser Vase – but thanks to different aspects. I love the diverseness of the glazing, the play of shadow and light [...]
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A golden age into which Frans Francken the Younger was born. Brussels was ruled by the patron Albrecht VII of Habsburg and his wife Isabella, great patrons of the arts, [...]
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Interview with the Contemporary Art experts Astrid Pfeiffer and Timea Pinter about the Phantastic Realists – Hutter, Hausner & Co. The imKinsky is very lucky to show in its Christmas [...]
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Tyrolean hunter in Waldmüller's work "The high quality of the painting captivated me immediately. I was instantly fascinated by the fine brushstrokes and the reproduction of the different materials, which [...]
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Born out of necessity: Netsuke In 17th-century Japan, out of necessity, a technically fascinating art object was created that made collectors' hearts beat faster. Clothing at that time lacked pockets, [...]
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In the big Christmas auction, the im Kinsky is proud to once again offer some works by the important Carinthian artist Werner Berg. The two experts Claudia Mörth-Gasser and Barbara [...]
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The rise of the family in the 18th century Seven generations, 21 sculptors, 200 years of artistic prowess – the Schwanthaler’s are without doubt a unique family. Their story starts [...]
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The women at the im Kinsky aren’t shrinking violets! Whatever different art periods they may come from, they’re confidently looking out into the world. Please find a selection of fascinating [...]
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As the way to the sea is becoming difficult due to travel restrictions, a trip to the local mountains is proving more and more attractive. Artists have always found inspiration [...]
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Summer is the perfect time to entertain friends. The auctin house im Kinsky offers some wonderful objects in its post-auction sale to enhance your dining table or dining room. Tables, [...]
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Our post auction sale offers you an exciting view on male portraits throughout history. There are wise men, army men, men who use their bodies as an object to create [...]
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The summer sun is burning and makes vivid colors shine. Curated works from our post-auction-sale offer a variety of brilliant hues – be inspired by their luminosity! From darkest blue [...]
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An unique expertise We are delighted to introduce two works by a painter for whom we have unique expertise: Norbertine Bresslern-Roth. We hold the world record for the most expensive [...]
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Your advantages in Private Sales Spectacle, atmosphere, adrenaline rush in the bidding battle are unique experiences for many customers in a live auction. And yet: PRIVATE SALES convince with a [...]
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You own a work by Bischoffshausen? We are working on a catalogue raisonné. How do we get together? Please contact: charlotte.kreuzmayr@chello.at, T +43 699 100 29 621. All information will be treated confidentially. [...]
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A round birthday: Valie Export To celebrate the artist’s 80th birthday, the Landesmuseum Oberösterreich will hold a – currently delayed - retrospective, but there are many finds on the net, [...]
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The auction house im Kinsky is offering a wonderful rare collection of objects from a cabinet of wonder, dating from the gothic period to the 19th century. The significance of [...]
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A weekly artsy update Mag. Alexandra Markl again presents three things from the art world that you shouldn't miss! The basics of collecting art It won’t be the corona virus but [...]
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Market leader Rudolf Polanszky has „made it“ – not only the Auction House im Kinsky did sell one of his works for a world record price of 126.000 € (hammer [...]
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The moment of truth: "We will manage." It seems as if Mario Dalpra had foreseen our present as early as 2017: his sculpture "il momento della verita" which im Kinsky auctioned [...]
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Selling art online - and with great success We do see a strong ongoing trend where most of our bidders do take part in the auction from the comfort of [...]
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Step by step to a successful sale Send us photos of your artworks to: office@imkinsky.com, simply give us a call: +43 1 532 4200 or use our online form  Arrange a personal [...]
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A weekly artsy update Mag. Alexandra Markl presents a weekly artsy review with exciting articles and interesting exhibitions. Stay informed with us! Helene Funke "Dreams", 1913 Every weekday the Belvedere Museum [...]
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A Highlight at imKinsky With a selling price of (KP) von €249.600 (hammer price €195.000), Werner Berg's skittles players became the top lot of our march auction. The “german carinthian” [...]
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The artist and the auction house Drago J. Prelog has died on March 11th in Vienna at the age of 81. The Auction House im Kinsky is regretting the loss [...]
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Modern Art The 131st Auction brought many fantastic results for the Modern Art section. Firstly, Werner Berg’s “Skittles Players” from 1979 played up to €249.600 including buyer’s premium (Hammer Price [...]
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Valuation Days After an exciting first auction in 2020, our team is ready again for you and your works of art - with enthusiasm and passion. That is why we [...]
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Italy Italy has always been a very important market for the auction house im Kinsky. Therefore we are delighted to introduce Pauline Beaufort-Spontin as our new representative for Italy. The [...]
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American Artists auctioned for record prices Andy WARHOL € 230.400 / € 180.000 Keith HARING €90.880 / € 71.000 Andy Warhol is still one of the most sought-after artists of [...]
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The "nail artist" Being called a “nail artist” does not bother Günther Uecker, on the contrary: “People do need a sign, a logo… and with me it is the nail [...]
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A mirror and a smile Juan Muñoz' „Chinese looking at himself in a round mirror” is smiling happily – a perfectly mundane sight. But something is not quite right here: [...]
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„In the midst of all these stylists which have so little to say, you are the only one who grasps the soulful substance of things“. Ernst Jünger to Alfred Kubin [...]
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The starting point was a cellar in 1962 in the Viennese 20th district. There, Hermann Nitsch (born 1938), Otto Muehl (1925-2013) and Adolf Frohner immured themselves to get on with [...]
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A coat dress from the Viennese fashion salon “Schwestern Flöge” Alexandra Markl Pure Avant-garde – this is what the dresses from the sisters Flöge’s Salon represented in turn-of-the century Vienna. [...]
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Selected works of 19th century Austrian paintings: Agricola, Waldmüller und Amerling by Dr. Gerbert Frodl, former director, Belvedere, Vienna Lecture for the opening of the 127th auction on April 3rd, [...]
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graceful, spiritual, arabesque-like our life seems like that of fairies in gentle dances to turn the void, to whom we sacrificed being and present. Hermann Hesse The beautiful Wood Fairy [...]
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“Hence I rip my clay apart, melt it together, let it glow, and hope to escape loneliness through the realisation of dreams and contacts.” Kurt Ohnsorg (1927–1970) Kurt Ohnsorg was [...]
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“Dinghies are small boats that you put on a larger boat or tow along on a rope and use to go ashore and get supplies. My ‘Regentag Dinghy’ was built [...]
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A Short Film in Glass They’re in a hurry, these three riders, urging their horses on with whip in hand. High peaks appear in the background, little clouds dancing above [...]
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With All the Senses Painting is seldom something just for the eyes; after all, the psychology of colours and things directly associated therewith can also address all the other human [...]
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The Need for a New Name Once upon a time, Vienna gave cause for a name-change that was decisive indeed: it was here that, shortly before 1502, a young and [...]
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It was one of the most distinguished glass manufacturers in the former Austrian Empire: The company Johann Lötz Witwe founded in 1851 in Klostermühlen, at that time in Bohemia. What [...]
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Maria Lassnig considered every detail in her paintings: instead of writing “Mesnerleute“ as the orthographically correct version, she doubled the letter “s” causing an ambivalent meaning. Mesner (sacristans) are in [...]
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Richard Lányi owned a renowned, albeit tiny bookshop in the Kärntnerstraße in Vienna, where he invited selected customers, whose interest seemed to be genuine, to the first floor in order [...]
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GLASS from the Alps – a Fascinating Cultural Heritage Over many centuries, numerous local glasshouses in the Alpine region produced flasks and other glassware for everyday use. A significant location [...]
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Jacopo Vignali, Rinaldo and Armida, 1634 Cloaked in the Obscurity of the Past It’s all a riddle at first: does the depiction in this large-scale painting actually correspond to the [...]
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Rudolf von Alt-View from the Torre del Mangia to the Basilica of San Francesco in Siena, 1871 The Beckoning Call of the South… …was heard by Rudolf von Alt in [...]
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Norbertine Bresslern-Roth, Resting Deer, 1944   Who’s Watching Whom? There he sits, a thoroughly magnificent stag; handsome and dignified, at rest but constantly vigilant with an eye to protecting those [...]
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Andreas Hofer’s prayerbook, 1804 „This book belongs to me Andere Hofer ßant in Passeyr 1804“ These three lines, slightly awkwardly written in brown ink, and not conforming at all to [...]
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Red resounding background No colour is more luminous, more dynamic or more connected to life (the colour of blood!) than red. Like no other painter, Max Weiler has investigated the [...]
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With the Eye of the Painter One afternoon in late autumn, a young man strode through the area of the monastery at Klosterneuburg known as Schmiedehof (the blacksmith’s yard), suddenly [...]
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How does tea taste when served in a silver cup? Admittedly this is quite a banal way to introduce this tea service, designed by Josef Hoffmann for the Wiener Werkstätte [...]
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Eger (Chub), mid-17th century Art history can be quite powerless sometimes! This immaculate and refined cabinet, made from various different woods, does not have an artist’s name attached, only the [...]
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Olga Wisinger-Florian What a wonderful painting! It is small, at just 16 x 26 cm, and it is painted on cardboard, and yet it is captivating because of the denseness [...]
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South Tyrolean Master, circa 1515 An unusually wide nut panel presents us with two scenes happening one after the other. To the left we see Joachim, who was the father [...]
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