Günther Uecker
Weißer Wind
Nails and white paint on canvas, 1992
150 x 150 cm x 18 (59 x 59 x 7 in)
Estimate:: € 400.000-600.000

Munich, 10 November, 2014, (kk) – Like a whirlwind – weightless, powerful and yet dynamic – is what Günther Uecker's nail work from 1992 emanates. On 5 and 6 December the large-size piece from the œuvre of the ZERO master will blow through Ketterer Kunst's Jubilee Auction in Munich.

Those who want to hit the mark and get the object for a possible estimate of € 400.000-600.000, might hit the jackpot, because a work by the artist who lives in Düsseldorf crossed the one million Euro line in an auction in June this year. His filigree "Hommage à Fontana" realized the proud sum of € 1.260.000* - also at Ketterer Kunst.

The nail is in the center of Günther Uecker's artistic creation, his focus is on the unity of light, space, motion and time. While the nail is traditionally associated with concepts of holding on and fixation, the artist succeeds in using this material in a way that expresses the very opposite idea. Light and shade enliven the surface with the partly dense and partly scattered nails and make for a rhythmic dynamic that varies depending on the observer's position. All elements seem to flow and directly reflect the artist's intensive, almost trance-like process of creation.

Next to the unusual work "Weißer Wind" (estimate: € 400.000-600.000) eight further exciting works by Günther Uecker (estimates between € 1.000 and 300.000) will be called up.

Further highlights in the section of Modern Classics come from Otto Mueller ("Liebespaar/Sitzendes Zigeuner-Liebespaar", estimate: € 800.000-1.200.000), August Macke ("Unter den Lauben von Thun (Ein Spaziergängermotiv)", estimate: € 600.000-800.000) and Egon Schiele ("Liegender weiblicher Akt mit angezogenen Beinen", estimate: € 300.000-400.000) as well as amongst others from Otto Dix, Alexej von Jawlensky, Paul Klee, Emil Nolde and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.

Additionally, the separate catalog "Aus der ehemaligen Sammlung Laaff" offers more than 30 works by, among others, Conrad Felixmüller ("Der Maler Otto Schubert und Frau", estimate: € 100.000-150.000), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Robert Michel, Max Pechstein, Franz Radziwill, Josef Scharl and Georg Schrimpf.

Next to Kazuo Shiraga's impressive oil painting "Chijikusei Gotenrai" (estimate: € 400.000-600.000), the section of Post War Art offers numerous works by ZERO artists as well as by Gerhard Richter, Martin Kippenberger and Andy Warhol, who is represented with an extra catalog (see separate press release).

The section of Contemporary Art showcases a chibachrome impression by Andreas Gursky ("Ayamonte", estimate: € 120.000-150.000) as well as works by, among others, Anselm Reyle, Tony Cragg and George Condo.

Auction in Munich
05 December     Modern Classics
06 December     Post War / Contemporary Art as well as special catalog Andy Warhol