Sale: 553 / Contemporary Day Sale, June 07. 2024 in Munich Lot 208


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Bernd Koberling
Vogelbaum, 1983.
Synthetic resin on jute
Post auction sale: € 12,000 / $ 12,600
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Vogelbaum. 1983.
Synthetic resin on jute.
Signed and dated on the reverse. 270 x 210 cm (106.2 x 82.6 in). [AW].

• Monumental work from the “Man and Beast” series.
• Bernd Koberling is an important pioneer of the “Neue Wilde”.
• As a key representative of neo-expressionist painting, Koberling's works were shown in acclaimed exhibitions at the Royal Academy in London (1981) and the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin (1982).
• The artist's works are part of renowned international collections like the Sprengel Museum, Hanover, the ARoS Art Museum, Aarhus, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Vancouver Art Gallery
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Listed on the artist's official homepage.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Crone, Hamburg.
Onnasch, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1983; with the label on reverse).

EXHIBITION: Bernd Koberling, Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, May 20-June 18, 1983, p. 15.
Galerie Origen y visión, Centre Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, April 5 - May 6, 1984; Palacio Vélazquez, Madrid, May 21 - July 29, 1984, p. 115.
Die wiedergefundene Metropole. Neue Malerei in Berlin, Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, September 21 - November 4, 1984; Cultural Department of Bayer AG, Leverkusen, November 18 - December 16, 1984.
Der unverbrauchte Blick. Kunst unserer Zeit in Berliner Sicht. Eine Ausstellung aus Privatsammlungen in Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, January 29 - April 5, 1987 (verso of the stretcher with an exhibition label).
Bernd Koberling, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, April 27 - June 16 1991; The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, June 26 - September 15 1991, cat. no. 39 (verso of the stretcher with an exhibition label).
Bernd Koberling, El Sourdog Hex, Berlin, September 10 - October 27, 2007.

LITERATURE: Bernhard Kerber, Rainer Borgemeister, Bestände Onnasch, Berlin/Bremen 1992, p. 257.
El Sourdog Hex (ed.), Nineteen Artists, Berlin 2010, p. 60 (illu.).





Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Bernd Koberling "Vogelbaum"
This lot can only be purchased subject to regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.

Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 27 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 21% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 19 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium. As an exception, the reduced VAT of 7 % is added for printed books.

Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.

The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.