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We Value Your Artworks in 2018 Germany’S Most Successful Auctions Took Again Place at Ketterer Kunst FOR 65 YEARS GLOBAL EXPERT IN GERMAN ART WE VALUE YOUR ARTWORKS IN 2018 GERMANY’S MOST SUCCESSFUL AUCTIONS TOOK AGAIN PLACE AT KETTERER KUNST. THIS WAY WE OUTPACED THE ENTIRE GERMAN COMPETITION AND MOVED UP TO PLACE 16 WORLDWIDE. 2018 – THE MOST SUCCESSFUL YEAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE FAMILY BUSINESS KETTERER KUNST Dear Friends, 2018 was another excellent year for our auction house! We know very well how important it is for a family enterprise like ours to find and maintain its clear position on the market. It is this very awareness that always helps us to attract new client groups. Accordingly, we owe our success to both our staff and our clients. For the future we are determined to remain a trendsetter. The growing numbers of our online sale, where we sell 30 % of all our objects, are just one example of our inno vativeness. This is a decisive competitive edge for an internationally active auction house that ranks among the global top 20. Over the past ten years we tripled our sales. Realizing international records on a regular basis, we have become Germany’s fastest growing auction house. Naturally, our consignors benefit the most from this development. Working at the highest possible scientific level will remain a key aspect of our busi- ness success, as the value of an art object is increasingly determined by its prove- nance. We have felt obliged to meet these high quality standards since 1954, some 65 years by now. If you currently plan to sell your art objects, I would like to cordially invite you to contact me personally. We are already looking forward to seeing you at our auctions in June and December 2019! With all the best wishes from Munich – Yours, Robert Ketterer KETTERER KUNST REVIEW 2018 GÜNTHER UECKER POETIC ENERGY IN AN OSCILLATING ROSE “Zärtlicher Garten” (Tender Garden) occupies a very special position among Uecker‘s large-format nail pictures, which are his most sought- after works on the international auction market, as ever new record pri- ces deliver impressive proof of. It is a unique and experimental work in many respects. There is, of course, the color, singular in Uecker’s oeuvre, EXPERT OPINION a kind of rose, iridescently oscillating in various shades, interspersed with fray parts and characterized by a tangible, three-dimensional depth. On the other hand, in comparison with Uecker’s works from the 1960s, the arrangement of the nails in this work is unusually dynamic. Their dense and undulating layout already hints at later creations titled “Feld” (Field) and “Woge” (Wave). However, Uecker still employs a rather loose arrange- ment of medium-sized nails with small heads, instead of the compacted order of tall nails with big heads, typical of his later works. The brute and immediate dynamic of his later Field- and Wave Pictures is contrasted with a gentle, almost poetic energy: an “impertinent tenderness”. “I have never regarded myself as an aggressor. The aggression I am imputed to does not exist. It is tenderness with a certain impertinence, a kind of intrusiveness. This tenderness is a longing for love.” Günther Uecker, quote after: www.ndr.de/kultur/geschichte/koepfe/Guenther-Uecker-Viele- Naegel-grosse-Kunst. In terms of abstraction, the “Zärtliche Garten” perhaps is the most figura- tive and most pictorial work in Uecker‘s oeuvre, as it reveals – depending on the observer‘s position – two abstract reclined nudes that face each Dr. Melanie Puff initially pursued a other, represented by the nails’ density and the background’s intensive, career as curator after she had earned her doctor‘s degree in Art and Cultural almost pink coloring. Science, and spent a year as trainee in This is what seems to have likewise impressed Ketterer’s clients: In the the Curatorial Department of Painting & Sculpture at the Museum of Modern auction six domestic and international bidders competed for the work, Art in New York. However, she soon eventually they drove the price from an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 felt deep interest in the art market and euro to a result of 1,462,500 euro – around twice the valuation price. all the diversity it has to offer. She has Ketterer once more underlined its leading position in German Post War been active as Art Adviser for national and international clients for some 15 Art. Especially for works from Uecker, it has established a market that years and also runs the art market ana- GÜNTHER UECKER maintains a strong performance on both a national as well as on an inter- lysis platform “The Art Market News- national level. mag”. What she values most about Zärtlicher Garten. 1964 working for Ketterer is the privilege to Nails and paint on panel establish ties between collectors and 154 x 153 x 9.5 cm (60.6 x 60.2 x 3.7 in) the art market, as well as the opportuni- ty to present such remarkable works RESULT: € 1.5 MILLION as the above-mentioned one by Uecker to the public and to promote them with maximum performance. KETTERER KUNST REVIEW 2018 EMIL NOLDE FIRE-SPITTING CLOUD CREATURES Perhaps it is the picture‘s depth or the strong and bright colours, the shimmer and the reflections of light and oil paint itself that stirr in me such an immense fascination when I look at the painting “Herbstwolken, Fries- land” from the great Emil Nolde. And I am definitely not the only one who feels this way! I often heard in the many onversation with visitors at our auction preview sentences like: “I could look at it for hours, over and over again“. If you add the remarkable list of exhibitions, the one-of-a-kind pro- venance, and Nolde‘s concept of nature as well as his personal relation to the painting, it becomes obvious that: This is a nothing less than a top EXPERT class masterpiece! OPINION Professor Dr. Manfred Reuther, longtime director of the Emil Nolde Foun- dation Seebüll and the most acknowledged expert of the painter world- wide, stressed the importance of “Herbstwolken, Friesland” in a talk at the Munich headquarters of Ketterer Kunst. This was a very special moment for me. There is no one else besides Prof. Reuther who has got such profound knowledge on the oeuvre of the German Expressionist. The audience was fascinated by his explanations of the effects the Frisian nature had on the painter: How Nolde saw mystical creatures in the cloud formations, the sky and the sea, and how he expressed this in his paintings, such as in the present one. “Don‘t you agree that that the clouds possibly form two primal, fire-spitting creatures?” thus Prof. Reuther asked. The scene shows a view onto the lake Hülltoft Deep from a window of Nolde‘s house in Seebüll. To Nolde this motif was of prime significance. Nolde had discarded an earlier painting with the same view, however, he saw the need to eventually return to the motif of the mystical autumn EMIL NOLDE clouds, which he did in the present in the work. Herbstwolken, Friesland. 1929 It was this very fascination that made Bernhard Sprengel, founding father Oil on canvas of the museum in Hanover, fall for this picture. Searching for a particularly 73.5 x 106.5 cm (28.9 x 41.9 in) special work by Emil Nolde, Sprengel acquired this oil painting in 1941. RESULT: € 1.7 MILLION The Sprengel Museum emerged from the art patron‘s private collection Christiane Gorzalka, daughter of an artist couple, grew up surrounded by of Expressionist and Modern Art. However, the collection did not include sculptures and paintings and felt close- “Herbstwolken, Friesland“, as Sprengel held it back in order to give it to ly connected with art from an early a close relative as a present. Sprengle supposedly asked the presentee point on. After she had completed her “Are you aware that you own one of the finest works by Nolde in Germany?”. studies of Art- and Cultural History in Maastricht, she earned her master’s Professor Dr. Manfred Reuther added that, in his opinion, the painting degree in Culture, Media & Creative In- must have meant a lot to Sprengel. dustries at King’s College in London in cooperation with Tate Modern Gallery. The price of 1,700,000 Euro, bid by my phone bidder in the auction on Her professional career began in the December 8, definitely confirms the painting‘s exceptional importance. London art trade where she had been When I raised my hand to communicate her final bid to the auctioneer, I felt active for an international auction house the audiences’ suspense, as they witnessed how lot 822 “Herbstwolken, for several years before she came to Ketterer Kunst in Munich in the fall of Friesland” changed owners. 2017. KETTERER KUNST REVIEW 2018 GERHARD RICHTER THE REALITY IS BLACK-AND-WHITE Next to the large-size “Abstract Pictures”, Richter’s black-and-white photo pictures from the 1960s count among his internationally most sought- after works. Now one of these remarkable works was sold for a million euro in our autumn auction. EXPERT The slightly blurred portrait of the Rhineland businessman and acclaimed OPINION art collector Willy Schniewind is part of a small series of portraits that Richter made on the initiative of the legendary gallery owner Alfred Schmela, Düsseldorf, for his first solo show in September 1964. The series, initially comprising just eight portraits, was based on three portrait pictures from 1964 that show Alfred Schmela himself. They were made after passport photographs and photos from gallery openings as a sort of promotional material for the gallery.
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