Lempertz is a German auction house which emerged from a bookstore and art gallery founded 1845 in Bonn, Germany. It is entirely owned and controlled by the Lempertz family and headquartered in Cologne
Lempertz in Neumarkt, Cologne, Germany
Madonna mit Kind an der Fassade der Galerie (2007)
Hermann Max Pechstein was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and a member of the Die Brücke group. He fought on the Western Front during World War I and his art was classified as Degenerate
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…by the Nazis. In October 2010 Lempertz auctioned forged paintings by Wolfgang Beltracchi, including forgeries attributed to Heinrich Campendonk and Max Pechstein from a nonexistent "Jäger" collection, including the forgery of Campendonk's “Rotes Picture with horses ”at a record price of 2.4 million euros. On…
Max Pechstein in his house in Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1915
Max Pechstein, 1911, Under the Trees (Akte im Freien), oil on canvas, 73.6 × 99 cm (29 × 39 in), Detroit Institute of Arts
Grave of Max Pechstein in the Evangelischer Friedhof Schmargendorf in Berlin