press release FINE ART Kurhaus Baden-Baden

Premiere for FINE ART Kurhaus Baden-Baden
New Fair for Art, Antiques and Design from March 29 to April 1, 2013
At Eastertide, Baden-Baden, renowned as a spa and cultural center, will host a new fair for art,
antiques and design:
FINE ART Kurhaus Baden-Baden takes place for the first time from March 29 to April 1,
2013, coinciding with the new Easter Festival of the Berlin Philharmonic in the famous city in
Baden-Württemberg.
With its new “FINE ART Kurhaus Baden-Baden”, the Viennese trade fair organizer M.A.C.
Hoffmann exports its highly successful concept already familiar from decades at Salzburg’s
Residenz: “In Baden-Baden, we are counting once again on the unique combination of art and
music at Eastertide,” says Alexandra Graski-Hoffmann, managing director of M.A.C. Hoffmann.
Selected galleries from Germany as well as Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands will
transform the atmospheric and tradition-steeped Kurhaus, the 19 th -century centerpiece of Baden-
Baden’s spa life, into a meeting-place for art lovers and collectors. The range of the objects
exhibited is broad, including paintings and prints from various epochs, Asian art, furniture, arts
and crafts, glassware, jewelry, carpets, silver, porcelain, watches and clocks, Jugendstil and Art
Déco.
Impressionistic, classical and modern
That describes the exhibit of Dr. Michael Nöth from Ansbach, a well-known specialist for
French and German art of the late 19 th and early 20 th century, who presents the painting Riders
on the Beach, facing left by Max Liebermann, dated 1911, and the picture Apple Trees in
Blossom by Henri Martin, born in Toulouse in 1860.
Galerie Bierhinkel from Baden-Baden is specialized in high-quality paintings of classical
modernism, works on paper as well as original prints. Accordingly, its exhibit at the new fair
features high-end works like Joan Miró’s 1960 painting Solitude III/III and the work Tête de
femme de face, verso: La Cruche saigne (1930-42) by Louis Soutter.
Another stall with famous names is Kunsthandel Hagemeier from Frankfurt: August Renoir’s
painting Paysage au bord de mer (1912) and Nude among driftwood (1940) by George Grosz are
highlights of its offerings.
Galerie Wilmsen from Hergatz has dedicated its show to the artist Emil Schumacher, one of the
great masters of German modernism. It presents gouaches by Schumacher from the late 1980s.
Berlin’s Galerie Lux offers classical modernism – e.g. Karl Hofer’s Girl with Green Blouse of
1949 – and current art – e.g. Pavel Feinstein’s oil painting WVZ 1573 of 2012 – and everything
in between. Bärbel Spieckermann from Solingen, on the other hand, has specialized in
contemporary female artists, as works by Aldona Sassek, bronzes by Cornelia Hammans and
paintings by Kirsten Driller prove. Another exhibitor from the contemporary segment is Galerie
Supper from Baden-Baden, where Gerhard Kehl’s sculpture in Harness, hand-carved and
lacquered wood, and subtle human portraits on fabric by Monika Thiele, whose works can also
be seen at this year’s Venice Biennial, are on view.

Paper and bronze
Friends of fine prints will be delighted by a woodcut by Lyonel Feininger (Crossing Sailing-
Boats, 1919) and the drawing Two Women and Two Children (1912) by August Macke, both
shown by Kunstkabinett Strehler from Sindelfingen. Harder materials were used for the
objects on view at the Galerie Villa Nepperberg, where the oeuvre of Max Seiz, a sculptor from
Schwäbisch Gmünd, is displayed – for example his bronze sculpture Evening Atmosphere, dated
2012.
Old Masters, new sculptures
The program of the Galerie Nieder, founded in 1924 in Winterberg-Silbach, includes paintings,
sketches, prints and sculptures from the 16 th to the 20 th centuries, one of its main focuses being
on the painting schools of the Academies in Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe and Munich
during the 19 th and early 20 th century. Thus, offerings in Baden-Baden will include a Mary with
Child and Angel with Flower Wreath dated ca. 1635 by Jan Brueghel the Younger, as well as a
view of Naples by Oswald Achenbach, ca. 1778/84, an example of the Düsseldorf School of
Painters.
Jan Breughel the Younger will also be one of the artists chosen by Kunsthandel Zöchling from
Eggenburg in Lower Austria, where one may admire his Sleeping Nymphs and Lurking Satyrs.
Furniture from the baroque, Biedermeier and Art Déco periods
A veritable specialist for antique furniture will exhibit at the Kurhaus: Kunsthandel Britsch
from Bad Schussenried in Upper Swabia focuses on Biedermeier furniture, cupboards from the
Lake Constance area, baroque furnishings as well as historistic and rustic pieces. One specimen
shown at FINE ART is a particularly fine cupboard built in Munich in the Biedermeier style
between 1815 and 1820, sporting cherry and rosewood veneer.
Friends of the art and design of the 1920s to 1940s, on the other hand, will flock to Art Déco
1925 from Baden-Baden. Among other items, a pair of armchairs with helix-shaped armrests
(France, ca. 1925) awaits its new owner, next to a globe vase entitled Le soleil d’Or by Nicolas
Blandin. Those in search of more classical forms may admire a masterful 19 th century cabinet
from Milan, richly inlaid with ivory, or a pair of baroque commodes at Kunsthandel Strassner
from Schärding in Upper Austria.
Porcelain, glassware, silver and jewelry
A broad palette of collector’s items is on display at City-Antik-Oliver Hunter from Vienna,
including a boat made of Viennese silver with enamel inlays from the second half of the 19 th
century, a Europa Riding the Bull made of Meissen Porcelain and executed between 1760 and
1770, as well as a whole collection of glass vases by Lötz dated between 1900 to 1910. Silver of
international pedigree and vintage jewelry can be found at The old Treasury from Kerkrade in
Southern Limburg. Items here include a bowl made by Ewald Nielsen in Copenhagen in 1937 as
well as two candlesticks from Sheffield dated 1908. Another booth with dazzling displays will be
Seewald from Berlin, where a platinum Art Déco brooch and a Jugendstil collier, among other
pieces, add sparkle to the proceedings.

Between Asia and the Orient
Collectors of Asian art will delight in the display at Blue Elephant from Steinach in
Switzerland: the displayed objects include the crown of an 18 th -century lady-in-waiting at the
Chinese court, a sitting bronze Buddha from 15 th /16 th century Thailand and a camel made of
fired clay dating back to the Tang Dynasty (6 th to 9 th century). Another Buddha, this one made of
papier maché from 19 th -century Burma, smiles at them from the booth of Galerie Darya from
Karlsruhe, specialized in antiques from all over Asia, the cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean
and increasingly also from sub-Saharan Africa.
Oriental carpets to go with such riches will be contributed by Daniel Bagherpur from
Aschaffenburg. At the Kurhaus, he will also show creations by one of the world’s most popular
carpet designers: Jan Kath, whose creations include the red carpet for the wedding of Prince
Albert II and Charlene Wittstock.
The Fabergé Museum at the FINE ART Fair
Naturally, such a display as that offered by the first FINE ART Kurhaus Baden-Baden is the
perfect place for the first and only museum dedicated to the life’s work of the famous Russian
jeweler to the Tsars, Carl Peter Fabergé. Thus, the enchanting Fabergé Museum from Baden-
Baden, which allows its visitors unique insight into the art of the legendary jeweler, presents
itself as an ideal complement to the FINE ART Kurhaus Baden-Baden.
FINE ART Kurhaus Baden-Baden
March 29 – April 1, 2013
Kurhaus Baden-Baden
www.fineart-kurhaus.de
Opening hours
Daily 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Admission
Adults/Day pass: € 9
Groups from 10 persons upwards: € 6 per person
Free admission for students (with ID, up to 27 years of age)
Organizer
M.A.C. – Hoffmann & CO. GmbH
Kongresszentrum Hofburg
Schweizertor
P.O. Box 14
1014 Vienna
Austria
office@mac-hoffmann.com
www.mac-hoffmann.com

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