Wolfgang Ketterer, “one of the most renown European art dealers“ (Abendzeitung, 09 September 2000) and “precursor of the German auction market“ (Handelsblatt, 08/09 September 2000), died in his home in Kreuth on Tegernsee near Munich today on 14 October 2009. Wolfgang Ketterer “made history in the German art business“, wrote the Frankfurter [Read More]
Daily Archives: October 15, 2009
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Included within the Bonhams & Butterfields’ Fine Books & Manuscripts auction on October 19, 2009 are two remarkable documents dating from the birth of the State of California: The first is a registrar leaf from the 1849 California State Constitutional Convention signed and inscribed by 46 members of the delegation. Signatures include [Read More]
One of the last complete European horse armors to have remained in private hands, accompanied by an imposing man armor, has been acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Created in 1507 by Wilhelm von Worms the Elder, the most famous Nuremberg armorer of his day, and entirely made of steel plates [Read More]