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HIRSH L O N D O N SNOWFLAKE COLLECTION HANDMADE IN PLATINUM Where Every Piece is A Work Of Art www.hirshlondon.com WEST END 56-57 BURLINGTON ARCADE W1J 0QN - T +44 (0)20 7499 6814 - CITY 9 HATTON GARDEN EC1N 8AH - T +44 (0)20 7831 3333
IMAGES©THEIRVINGPENNFOUNDATIONGUIDOMOCAFICO Previous page: Konrad and Blanca Bernheimer at their Munich gallery; Blanca holds a 1955 Lucien Clergue. Above: Nature morte à la vanité (2008) by Guido Mocafi co. Above right: Dahomey Children (1967) by Irving Penn PRIVATARTS behind these works there usually stood Bernheimer Munich. Bernheimer, Pope among art’s true believers.’ Otto Bernheimer (1877–1960), the youngest of Lehmann’s three sons, built up magnifi cent collections of Italian renaissance artefacts including tapestries, furniture and decorative wood panels, coff ered ceilings and imposing doors, sculpture and fountains. Otto became the prime mover within the company, surviving WWI, the Depression, Nazi oppression and expropriation, and WWII in a fantastical move which saw the family relocate to Venezuela and then after the war return to Munich. Otto’s son Kurt (1911–1954) had married while in South America but he died tragically young and his family moved back to Munich under the care of Otto. Th en in 1977, Kurt’s only son, Konrad O. Bernheimer came into the business at the age of just 26. Konrad had worked at Christie’s in London and was determined to make his mark. Th e company was thoroughly modernised, changing focus from furnishings and decorating to art and specifi cally old master paintings. Given that the Bernheimer name is now synonymous with old masters (paintings from the 15th to the 19th century), it’s hard to believe that this side of the company is scarcely more than 30 Thirty-Seven ‘I always buy for myself. Th e clients understand that, they appreciate the harmony of a single point of view’ years old. Today Bernheimer Fine Old Masters occupies an elegant neoclassical building in Briennerstrasse, Munich, and at Old Bond Street in London where, in 2002, Konrad acquired the legendary fi ne art dealership Colnaghi in partnership with Katrin Bellinger, the eminent specialist in fi ne art drawings. Colnaghi celebrated its 250th anniversary last year and the combination of Bernheimer, Bellinger and Colnaghi has created an unparalleled concentration of expertise. Konrad Bernheimer has inherited the family business sense along with an ultra-refi ned taste and artistic sensibility. He has an enviable network of contacts in the art world from private individuals to museum curators, and he generally knows which pictures are for sale and who may wish to buy them. I ask how work comes onto the market and he quotes Peter Watson, former head of Sotheby’s: divorce, debt and death. But the three Ds aside, the relationship between dealer and client is very close and confi dential, and many works come back to Bernheimer if the owner, or the owner’s family, needs to resell them. Th e international centres for old masters remain London, New York, Munich and major international fairs such as TEFAF at Maastricht (16–25 March) and the new summer event in
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