"Die feinsinig gewählte Galerie des Herrn Maximilian Kellner" : Eine Sammlung alter Meister zwischen Brünn, Wien und Berlin
| Title in English | "Die feinsinig gewählte Galerie des Herrn Maximilian Kellner" : A collection of old masters between Brno, Vienna and Berlin |
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Opuscula historiae artium |
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| Web | https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/143933 |
| Keywords | Maximilian Kellner; Otto Kuhn; collections of Old Masters; 17th-century Netherlandish painting; art market; art auctions; Brno; Vienna; Berlin |
| Description | The article looks at the results of the collecting activities of Maximilian Kellner (1869–1940), co-owner of the steam mill and bakery in Rosice (Rossitz), near Brno, and of the company's other branches in Brno and Vienna. His primary interests were Austrian, French, and English portrait miniatures from the 19th century and paintings by old and especially Netherlandish masters of the 17th century. Maximilian Kellner was then forced by the economic crisis to cease collecting in 1929 and to sell off his collection of 36 paintings by Old Masters and a number of valuable sculptures and decorative artefacts, which he did anonymously, represented as 'the Gallery of a Viennese Collector', at Rudolph Lepke's auction house, the oldest such enterprise in Berlin. In the appendix to the article a large part of Kellner's collection is reconstructed from the catalogue that was published for this auction. |