90 Years of Bauhaus      

Two auction houses hold themed auction
for first joint project

Auction houses Ketterer Kunst and Quittenbaum are taking the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus by Walter Gropius as an occasion to hold a joint auction, a first for both. The venue for the joint auction on 20 June 2009 will be the new Ketterer Kunst House for Art, directly at the Munich fairgrounds.

Each of the auction houses held highly successful themed Bauhaus auctions of their own on the 80th and on the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus. So it makes sense to join forces and take advantage of the synergy bonus to be had from combining expertise, marketing and logistics.

The two hosts, who belong to the same generation, are looking forward to the joint auction project: “Two Munich auction houses collaborating is something new indeed and makes sense not just for us,” thus Askan Quittenbaum. And Robert Ketterer adds: “Our clientele especially will benefit from this joint event because collaboration will make the auction multifaceted.”

The range of the special auction encompasses the applied and fine arts. Consignments are now welcome: whereas Ketterer Kunst will handle paintings, works on paper and sculpture, Quittenbaum is responsible for furnishings, design and art objects. The catalogue on the approx. 150 lots will be available in Germany for € 25 (Europe + € 5, rest of the world + € 10).

Experiments with form and colour, glass-making and metalworking, commercial art, photography, cabinet-making and ceramics were on the curriculum of the school founded by Walter Gropius in 1919. Painters and sculptors, including Johannes Itten, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee and Oskar Schlemmer made the revolutionary institution famous and so did exponents of the applied arts such as Wilhelm Wagenfeld and Marcel Breuer, with the objectively functional furniture they designed featuring the new materials tubular steel and industrial glass. “Art and technology - a new unity” - that was the title of the large-scale exhibition the Bauhaus staged in 1923. The unity of fine art, the applied arts and industry - that was pivotal to the thinking of the creative visionaries who set trends by going new ways in design in Weimar and later in Dessau. The Bauhaus spirit would live on in subsequent institutions based on it, such as Black Mountain College, the New Bauhaus and the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm. Many works designed in the Bauhaus era are today icons of German design and an integral part of everyday living.

	Important results of
		Wassily Kandinsky Kleine Welten. 1922. Mappe mit zwölf Blatt Originalgraphik. Blattmaß bis ca. 36 x 28 cm (14,1 x 11 in). Mappenformat: 46,4 x 35,2 cm (18,2 x 13,8 in). Schätzpreis: € 150.000 Erlös brutto: € 175.500	Lyonel Feininger Windmühle. 1933. Aquarell und Tuschzeichnung auf feinem Bütten von Hahnemühle. 30 x 47,2 cm (11,8 x 18,5 in). Schätzpreis: € 25.000 Erlös brutto: € 41.400
	László Moholy-Nagy Eifersucht.1927. Fotografie nach einer Fotomontage, mit Deckweiß und Tusche überarbeitet. 30 x 23,5 cm (11,8 x 9,2 in). Schätzpreis: € 15.000 Erlös brutto: € 30.420	Oskar Schlemmer Spiel mit Köpfen. Um 1920. Folge von sechs Lithografien in verschiedenen Farben. Je ca. 25,5 x 20 cm (10 x 7,8 in). Papier: 42,5 x 29 cm (16,7 x 7,9 in). Schätzpreis: € 120.000 Erlös brutto: € 187.200	Oskar Schlemmer Zwei Köpfe, einander zugewandt. 1928 Bleistift und gespritzte Tusche. 41 x 31 cm (16,1 x 12,2 in). Schätzpreis: € 60.000 Erlös brutto: € 122.400

Ketterer Kunst has been firmly established in the front ranks of leading auction houses dealing in art and rare books since it was founded in 1954. Based in Munich, Ketterer Kunst has a branch in Hamburg as well as gallery rooms in Berlin and representatives in Heidelberg, Krefeld and the Lake Constance area, a spread that has contributed substantially to the company's success. The Ketterer portfolio has been rounded off by the acquisition of the distinguished publishing house Ernest Rathenau Verlag, New York/Munich. In addition, exhibitions, themed and benefit auctions for charity as well as online auctions are regular events at Ketterer Kunst.

	Important results of:
		Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Teabox, 1924, hammer price € 25.000	Josef Hartwig, Joost Schmidt, chess, 1924, hammer price € 12.500
	Max Bill, stool, 1954, hammer price € 6.500	H. Gugelot, H. Lindinger, W. Wagenfeld, Radio Phono, 1956, hammer price € 6.000	Hannes Meyer, chair, 1925/26, hammer price € 16.500

Quittenbaum founded in 1998, has become Germany’s leading auction house for design. Other specialist fields are furnishings, Jugendstil/Art Nouveau art objects, African art and Murano glass. A Quittenbaum speciality is annual highlight auctions at relevant venues such as the Haus der Kunst in Munich, accompanied by a programme of lectures given by experts and museum curators. Since 2009 the regular auction programme has been enlarged to include online auctions.

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