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Ketterer Kunst in Munich announces sale of German Avant-Garde paintings in October

MUNICH.- The greatest treasures can often be found off the beaten paths. That also accounts for the Special Auction Side lines of the German Avant-garde, which will be held in context of the auction of Modern Art on 28 October. “A lot of works by artists presented in this auction fell victim to World War II and later sank into oblivion. This makes it even more important to put these works, which don’t need to hide their light behind renowned names such as Otto Dix, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner or August Macke, into the limelight to a greater extent”, thus Robert Ketterer. The intention of the owner of Ketterer Kunst is to draw public attention to artists that have been wrongly forgotten and to thus give them the merits they deserve. With this unusual concept Ketterer Kunst offers artists of both Expressionism and New Objectivity, whose oeuvres were strongly depleted during the Third Reich, their own forum. On the other hand, th