Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: bizarre heads
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt and his unique œuvre shine in the latest volume of the “Belvedere…
Futurism: The world in motion
Futurism – Italy’s artistic answer to a social change, culture, and art influenced by scientific…
Gino de Dominicis: earthly and divine
Gino de Dominicis was one of the most interesting and exceptional artists of the 20th century. His work focuses on such themes as the immortality of matter, space and time, and invisibility.…
Alexander Koester: plumed stars of art history
The upcoming auction week offers two of the sought-after duck scenes by Alexander Koester, who came to be known as ‘Duck-Koester’, an exceptional 19th century artist. Koester made the duck an acceptable…
Lucio Fontana: figurative vs. abstract
Lucio Fontana was one of the most important and influential artists of the 20th century. His oeuvre is diverse and varied, and falls into various categories, of which sculpture is undoubtedly a…
Giuseppe Sciuti: Sicilian Heritage
Giuseppe Sciuti was a star of his time. His portraits, genre scenes and historic paintings were widely exhibited and appraised even by Hereditary Prince Umberto of Savoy. Now the largest and most…
Family gathering: the Brueghels come to auction at Dorotheum
Painterly dynasties such as the Brueghels are among the most fascinating phenomena in European art history. The traditional German biographical dictionary of artists “Thieme-Becker” lists as many as twelve representatives of this family of painters.
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