POSTIONS Berlin art fair

POSITIONS Berlin kicks off the fall art season and of course there is no way around this institution in the Berlin art scene. The spacious Hangars 6 and 7 of Berlin-Tempelhof Airport alone, with their 16-meter-high ceilings and the light-flooded halls of this historic location, provide a unique backdrop for our selected works of classical modernism by Max Beckmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Franz Marc, Lyonel Feininger and others, true to our motto: classic, modern, paper!

Fiscal Year 2024 Act | 7 instead of 19 % for the art market

Reduced VAT for the art market in the 2024 Annual Tax Act - On Germany's initiative, the old EU VAT Directive was amended after a long struggle: Works of art and collectors' items were included in the catalogue of goods that may, in principle, benefit from preferential treatment. This option has now been transposed into German tax law and will therefore apply from January 2025.

This is a great success and an example of sensible cultural policy, which we are very pleased about!

Linienspiel und Farbenrausch VII

Together with Artcurial and Kunkel Fine Art, we are once again presenting a special selection of works on paper in the joint exhibition Linienspiel und Farbenrausch!

You can look forward to Alexej von Jawlensky's particularly colorful "Meditation (1934 N. 249)" from 1934: The artist deliberately chose the abundance of very different "beautiful and golden" tones, because he dedicated this meditation to his close friend Lisa Kümmel - and explained that these were precisely "her colors". This work, full of life and positive energy, proves once again the unbroken creative power of a man for whom the end of his creative work is unthinkable and the composing of ever new color melodies is the source of his tremendous will to live.

For lovers of small but fine "art pieces", we have included some of August Macke's specialties. A particular highlight is the wonderful sheet "Women before the Sultan", 1912. From the year of its creation, oriental themes are increasingly found in Macke's work: our composition transports the viewer into a fantastic world, the resolution of the mysterious actions of the figures remains open. The most diverse influences on Macke, Cubism and Futurism, find expression here. 

From 1900, Max Liebermann increasingly devoted himself to plein-air painting and depictions of the beach and coastal scenery, with a preference for the fashionable coastal town of Noordwijk, which he had visited many times since 1878. Our remarkable and unusually abstract pastel "View from the dunes near Noordwijk - Dutch flat landscape", 1908, reflects Liebermann's fascination with the vastness and freedom of the Dutch coastline. He captures his perceptions of light, air and space with great immediacy. Our work on paper probably served as a preparatory composition for the painting "Dunes near Noordwijk" from the same year.

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