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Impressionist & Modern Art - a showdown of Austrian painting    GUSTAV KLIMT: the price of beauty    The expectations were high, and with good reason, but the result is phenomenal: Gustav [...]
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The timeless fascination of Art Nouveau Georg MINNE: The precious tenderness of the body        That which fascinated the Secession artists of the past is also greatly coveted by the [...]
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Contemporary Art Contemporary goes Austria! HANS BISCHOFFSHAUSEN: ZERO, Austrian style – The beginning and high point of the auction day are marked by two outstanding works by the Austrian representative of [...]
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Impressionist & Modern Art GUSTAV KLIMT: Achievement through agreement Around 1898, Gustav KLIMT made six impressively beautiful portraits of women using coloured pastel chalk and pencil on paper. They do [...]
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Old Master Paintings & 19th Century Paintings When a boyish Cupid with golden curls mischievously appears behind rhododendron and lilies, success is definitely inevitable. The bidding topped out at €96,000/ [...]
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Antiques Antiques - 127th Auction In the rich and wide-ranging offerings in the area of Antiques, two sculptures capped off the the long afternoon of bidding. The moderate starting price [...]
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Spring 2019 at im Kinsky features forays into the world of fantasy, wonderful narratives of myths and religion, idyllic landscapes, transfigured beauties and a view of the world in miniature. [...]
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SURREALE WACHTRÄUME, 26 March – 3 May 2019 Curated by Dr. Agnes Husslein-Arco The KUNSTRAUM im Kinsky is devoting its second curated exhibition to the Viennese artist Kurt HÜPFNER (*1930), who [...]
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Impressionist & Modern Art The cat makes the difference! Its green, luminous eyes send an unmistakable message to the viewer: This fish belongs to me! And the collector who ultimately [...]
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Impressionist & Modern Art - Contemporary Art The first auction in the new year 2019 offers for the third time a wide-ranging selection of high-quality works at moderate prices. IMPRESSIONIST [...]
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Triumph of Contemporary Art The first Evening Sale of our firm on 1 December was a tremendous event and crowned the twenty-five-year history of the company with a impressively successful [...]
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CONTEMPORARY ART – 1 December 2018 No fewer than three outstanding oil paintings from different periods of Maria LASSNIG’s artistic production will go under the hammer, including her superb “Corkscrew Man”. [...]
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IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART – 30 November & 1 December 2018 The jubilee auction presents a veritable who’s who of art after 1900, but it kicks off with one of [...]
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Art Nouveau – 30 November 2018 This auction will again feature two exceptional Art Nouveau objects by Josef HOFFMANN. Not only Hoffmann’s customary harmonious composition makes these pieces extraordinary but also [...]
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ART BEFORE 1900 Old Masters – 19thcentury Paintings – Antiques 23 – 24 October 2018 Autumn 2018 will be completely dedicated to our jubilee: “25 Years of Auktionshaus im Kinsky”! [...]
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Vienna has a new location for contemporary art Beginning in autumn 2018, the Auktionshaus im Kinsky is opening the elegant rooms in the first courtyard of the Palais Kinsky for [...]
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123rd Art Auction, Contemporary Art TOP LOT: Friedensreich HUNDERTWASSER, Tender Dinghi, 1982 With its transformation of a worn-out old boat into a rowboat floating dreamily on the waves of a rainbow’s [...]
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123rd Art Auction – Impressionist & Modern Art It is but few painters by whom a portrait of an old woman, with all its allusions to beauty’s ephemeral quality, can elicit [...]
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This year’s big summer auction features an abundance of big names—from Egon Schiele to Alfons Walde and Rudolf Wacker in Impressionist & Modern Art, and from Friedensreich Hundertwasser to Arnulf [...]
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Fragile Treasures This impressive offering from nearly a millennium of glass culture did not fail to live up to expectations. Starting prices began rising with the very first objects from [...]
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Old Master Paintings Between Mythology and Mystical Fruits Their magic lay hidden behind the yellowed varnish and the colours’ natural darkening, the tell-tale attributes of old age. Yet they attracted [...]
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Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553) Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John Auktionshaus im Kinsky kicks off the first major art auction of its 25th-anniversary year with an art-historical [...]
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April 2018 will see one of the world’s most important private collections of historical glass objects go up for auction at im Kinsky! The collector, who devoted several decades of [...]
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The Collection of Erich Schuster 122nd Art Auction, Antiques, 25 April 2018 During the Biedermeier era, glass production in the Habsburg Monarchy’s numerous Bohemian glassworks took on a very specific [...]
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122nd Art Auction Antiques – Old Master Paintings – 19th-Century Paintings 24 & 25 April 2018 In this year’s first major auction, which is to take place this April, the [...]
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Just in time for im Kinsky’s celebration of 25 years, the founders of this successful auction house— Ernst Ploil and Michael Kovacek—are bringing a new partner on board: Christoph la [...]
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Contemporary Art: 6 December MARIA LASSNIG was — not unexpectedly — the star of our final CONTEMPORARY ART auction in 2017! Lassnig’s painting of the young married couple Resch with [...]
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Art Nouveau: 5 December DAGOBERT PECHE understood like no other how to transform the ornamental magnificence of the baroque into a contemporary form with an emphasis on playful and often [...]
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Impressionist & Modern Art: 5 December EGON SCHIELE fascinates without fail! And in our MODERN ART auction, his lively and vividly characterised drawing of the young art dealer Paul Wengraf scored [...]
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ART NOUVEAU – IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART – CONTEMPORARY ART December 5 – 6, 2017 Exposition: 29th November – 6th December 2017 Art Nouveau & Design Spectacular colourful glassware from [...]
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A Triumph of Craftsmanship Glassware, Ceramics, and a Narwhal Tusk   The collection was of the finest: Shaped glass from the Kramsach glass hut in Tyrol in the most dazzling [...]
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OLD MASTER PAINTINGS - ANTIQUES - 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY PAINTINGS 17-18 October 2017 17th October 2017 - Antiques Form-Colour-Function: This timelessly modern slogan accompanies the fascinating world of 17th [...]
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Books and Autographs, 22 June 2017 The library of Schloss Pfannberg, from the estate of Count Carl Anton Goëss-Saurau and his spouse Marie, née Mayr-Melnhof, gave occasion for a special [...]
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Contemporary Art, 21 June, 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. € 100,000 (SP € 126,000) for the sculpture Hutnadel II [Hatpin II] by Bruno Gironcoli established an entirely new price level for [...]
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Impressionist & Modern Art, 20 June, 6 p.m.   Koloman Moser worked for the Wiener Werkstätte up to 1907, after which he turned entirely to painting and proceeded to create 205 [...]
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Art Nouveau 20 June, 4 p.m. Above and beyond being a co-founder of the Wiener Werkstätte, Josef Hoffmann was and still is a “brand” in his own right—as was confirmed yet [...]
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Impressionist & Modern Art – Art Nouveau & Design – Contemporary Art Special Auction: Books & Autographs. Schloss Pfannberg. Estate of Carl-Anton Goess-Saurau and Marie, née Mayr-Melnhof, and works from [...]
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Old masters and paintings of the 19th century Sanchez Alonso Coello was once the sought-after court painter to Philip II of Spain and his daughter Isabella Clara Eugenia, who over [...]
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02Top Results for the Art of Antiquity and the Middle Ages It was immediately obvious at the auction that collectors from all over the world were very excited about the [...]
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Old Master Paintings – 19th Century Paintings – Antiques 25th April – 26th April The first large auction of spring 2017 presents masterworks from the 16th to the 19th centuries, [...]
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Masterpieces: Impressionist & Modern Art, Art Nouveau & Design, and Contemporary Art The 114th Art Auction at im Kinsky on 29 and 30 November 2016! Impressionist & Modern Art Watercolours [...]
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The Steinbock Horn Collection from the Estate of Carl-Anton Goess-Saurau and his wife Marie, née Mayr-Melnhof The steinbock was once the king of the Alps and was considered to be [...]
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Hunting in Art – Estate of Carl-Anton Goess-Saurau and his wife Marie, née Mayr-Melnhof, Schloss Pfannberg Hunters, collectors and artists share what can only be called a passion, not to [...]
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Hans Makart Hans Makart, a seducer of painting, connoisseur of everything female, superstar and life and soul of the salon – who else could paint love and make it speak? [...]
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Kremser Schmidt “You almost feel like a voyeur,” says expert Mag. Kareen Schmid, “when you suddenly get an insight into a private family interior. Even though it's at the invitation [...]
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From 1900 to the Present For this big June auction, the im Kinsky auction house has collected the highlights of the twentieth century: from exquisite examples of Viennese Art Nouveau [...]
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Spring at im Kinsky: Still Lifes, Idyllic Scenes, Refined Handicraft The big spring auction at im Kinsky presents highlights from the following departments: Old Master Paintings, 19th Century Paintings and [...]
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19th Century Paintings The portraits in this auction spurred the collectors to show their paddles: Isidor Kaufmann's Talmud Student went to the USA for €74,000 (sp €93,240) closely followed by [...]
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Winged Goddess of Victory - Contemporary Art at im Kinsky Yves Klein The colour blue, already adored in ancient Egypt, was given a new shade by Yves Klein, a shade [...]
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