The upcoming Design Auction, concluding on 18 February 2025 at 2 pm, once again brings… Read More →
A coded letter from Maria Theresa which will be up for sale on 17th December… Read More →
On the 12 December 2024, Fritz Muliar would have turned 105 years old. On that… Read More →
Prized both as gems and as healing stones, aquamarines go back a long way in… Read More →
TREASURE OF THE DAY: Cartier
The King of Jewellers Since its foundation in Paris in 1847, Cartier has been known…
ENIGMA: Undecipherable?
Enigma is probably the most famous encryption machine in the world. It played a key…
ARTWORK OF THE DAY: Jannis Kounellis
The Sacred in Everyday Objects ‘I’m a painter: I’m a visionary, but I don’t paint. I would like to attain vision, which is what painting was at first. Vision is the painter’s…
Early Art Patronage: Ludwig van Beethoven
In the 250th anniversary year of Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, a fragment of writing in the composer’s own hand, dated 1815 will be offered for sale at Dorotheum in the Autographs, Manuscripts…
ARTWORK OF THE DAY – Franz West
Do they fit to the body? The mind adapts to these pieces as they adapt to space. It is only when harnessed to a human being in the context of some action that…
ARTWORK OF THE DAY – Edward Cucuel
Autumn walk by Edward Cucuel Edward Cucuel's "Autumn Walk" depicts an atmospheric scene of young bouquet-bearing beauty, wearing an enigmatic expression before a placid lake. Marrying Cucuel’s artistic training in San Francisco…
Friedrich Becker – Gold, Steel, Kinetic
Friedrich Becker combined aesthetics and technology to form kinetic art, a genre that integrates movement as an essential part of the work. Petra Schäpers and Astrid Fialka-Herics on the momentum in the…
Modern Art
20 years of VIENNA ART WEEK
Is there anything in Vienna apart from Mozart, Sissi and Schönbrunn? Of course there is! When it comes to art, VIENNA ART WEEK and its Artistic Director, Robert Punkenhofer, have been trying…
