Dorotheum breaks records
The Dorotheum has been exceptionally successful in 2013. They have been breaking their own records for modern, contemporary and silver auctions, and a recent Old Masters sale ranked second best in the auction house’s history. Most noteworthy was the world record price for a piece by Austrian painter Hans Makart. The painting, The Death of […]
Art Metropolis, Living Memory
Variety caters to the pleasure principle, but it also creates a painful, existential dilemma: You’d have to be a loaf of bread sliced very thin, I decided, to spread yourself around to all the events of Vienna Art Week and Gallery Weekend. Predicting Memories was the overall theme as well as the central exhibition held […]
Auctions & Openings: Nov. 2012
Auctions Sporting & Vintage Guns Target-specific rifles and handguns, and more hunting equipment. 3 Nov., 10:00 Palais Dorotheum 1., Dorotheergasse 17 (01) 515 60-0 www.dorotheum.com Furniture Antique housewares including chandeliers, hutches and secretaries. 5 Nov., 14:00 Palais Dorotheum 1., Dorotheergasse 17 (01) 515 60-0 www.dorotheum.com Stamps Large selection from Austria and Germany, as […]
The Dorotheum: A Vehicle of Legend
Vintage Ferrari, Rolls Royce, Mercedes, Porsche, AC Bristol, Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin: going once – going twice – going thrice – it’s yours! Known for over 300 years as the largest auction house in continental Europe, the Dorotheum in Vienna’s inner city specialises in modern and contemporary art, 19th century art, silver, glass and porcelain, […]
Auctions & Openings, May 2012
AUCTIONS CARPETS AND TAPESTRY Antique oriental textiles and Turkmen carpets. 2 May, 14:00 MASTER DRAWINGS Watercolours, landscapes and miniature prints by Lucas Van Leyden, Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht Duerer and others. 2 May, 16:00 ART PHOTOGRAPHY Original vintage and classic photography by Italian, Austrian and Georgian masters. 3 May, 16:00 SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS, GLOBES A […]
Going Once…
Walking through the inner city in search of an ATM, I stumbled across the Dorotheum, Vienna’s famed auction house, tucked away behind the cafes and curving corners of the 1st District. Could this be Vienna’s best-kept secret south of the Graben? I tried the door. Locked. It was out of hours. I peered in between […]
Pricey Auction in The City of Music
No one expected the Dorotheum’s recent auction of musical instruments to make headlines. Outside of London or New York, the buyers just aren’t there. Even in a city of music like Vienna, with what might seem such an obvious market, instrument auctions have been largely local affairs, and for a number of years had been […]
Rudolf Leopold Goes Shopping
The sun was just setting on Schwarzenbergplatz; warm yellow light saturated the grand palaces surrounding the plaza as we entered the Haus der Industrie, the neo-classical bow to commerce opened in 1911 by the Emperor Franz Joseph, tonight host to the first ever Young Art Auction of Vienna’s Dorotheum. Inside, the grandeur of the architecture […]
