The auction house im Kinsky is an important art auction house located in Vienna's Palais Kinsky. The auctioneer of the house is Michael Kovacek.

Locations

The auction house specialized in Austrian art, in particular modern and contemporary art, though it also deals with the Art Nouveau, antiques, Asian, Old Masters and 19th Century paintings.

Auctions

In the almost 90 auctions im Kinsky has set records on Austrian art market.

Egon Schiele Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele (; 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian Expressionist painters, painter. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and for the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude sel ...

's ''Girl'' from 1917 at a price of 3,562,400 euros, recorded the highest price ever achieved in Austria for a work of art. Other records were set by Egon Schiele's ''View of Krumau'' (1,233,000 euros), Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller's ''The End of School Lessons'' (1,061,000 euros) and

Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement. His work helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe. Klimt is known for his paintings, murals, sket ...

's ''Helene'' (1,037,000 euros). This means that im Kinsky holds four of the five highest auction sales ever achieved in Austria. In 2010, Egon Schiele's ''The Procession'' was auctioned at the Kinsky for 4,437,400 euros. On April 12, 2016, at the request of the French Ministry of Culture and an order of the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office, the auction of the ''Portrait of a Gentleman'' by

Bartholomeus van der Helst Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613 – buried 16 December 1670) was a Dutch painter. Considered to be one of the leading portrait painters of the Dutch Golden Age, his elegant portraits gained him the patronage of Amsterdam's elite as well as th ...

from 1647, which had been stolen by the National Socialists in 1943, was stopped.

External links

Website des Auktionshauses im Kinsky

References

{{Authority control Companies based in Vienna Austrian auction houses