Karl & Faber Fine Art Auctions

15/10/2026

Our catalogues are now available online.
Old Masters & 19th Century Art & Prints, print catalogue coming soon.

Live Auction
Old Masters & 19th Century Art
Thursday, November 12
at our premises in Munich

Preview
6. – 11. November 2026

10/10/2026

ART FOR A GOOD CAUSE | ROTARY CHARITY AUCTION

We are delighted to host this year's Rotary Charity Art Auction at KARL & FABER in Munich!

Join us on 21 October 2026 for an evening dedicated to art and giving back.

50% of the proceeds will support the Orlandus Lassus Foundation or BISS – Bürger in sozialen Schwierigkeiten, while the remaining 50% will go to the participating artists and galleries.

📍 KARL & FABER, Amiraplatz 3, Munich
📅 21 October 2026 | Doors open at 6 PM
Auction & YouTube livestream from approx. 7:20 PM
Preview: 19 & 20 October, 11 AM–5 PM

Herbert Mehler, ROTAZIONE
Starting price: 2,500 €

Discover more and register to bid at rotarykunstauktion.de.

09/10/2026

POST-AUCTION SALE | NOW OPEN

Missed your chance to bid? Here's another opportunity!

Our Post-Auction Sale is now live, featuring a selection of works from Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art.

Discover available artworks and secure your favourites now.

Explore the Post-Auction Sale via the link in our bio.

02/10/2026

Final week to see The Sky Was Green by Anastasiia Batishcheva Anastasiia Batishcheva at KARL&FABER.
Recipient of the KARL&FABER Prize of the Stiftung Kunstakademie München, Batishcheva explores Italy’s Gran Sasso massif as a place between two worlds: the monumental landscape shaped by geology and history, and the underground research laboratory inside the mountain, where scientists search for neutrinos and dark matter.

Part of the interdisciplinary research project Neutrinos & Dark Matter, the exhibition brings art and science into dialogue through analogue photography, tracing connections between landscape, memory, the visible and the invisible.

Exhibition: 24 September 9 October 2026
The project is realized in cooperation with TUM and Haus der Kunst, with the involvement of DFG and Stiftung Kunstakademie München.

Photos: Anastasiia Batishcheva, 2026

Technische Universität München Haus der Kunst

DFG Stiftung Kunstakademie München

27/08/2026

Time is running! Consign now for our autumn-Winter auctions! Modern & Postwar / Contemporary Art as well als Old Masters & 19th Century Art
🔗Link in Bio

26/08/2026

Venice, 1970. When painting left the wall.
At the Venice Biennale, Agostino Bonalumi pushed one of the central ideas of his practice into the exhibition space itself: painting no longer had to remain flat.
Together with Enrico Castellani and Piero Manzoni, Bonalumi had already helped shape the radical ideas around Azimut, that an artwork should not imitate reality, but possess a reality of its own.

His pittura-oggetto brought that idea to life.
By shaping the canvas from behind, Bonalumi transformed painting into a physical body: a surface that projects into space, catches the light and changes with every shadow.

In this edition of SUMMER STORIES, we trace that development from the Venice Biennale back to our own work, where colour, volume, light and shadow turn the canvas into an object in its own right.

Agostino Bonalumi
Nero n°18, 1964
Result: €95,000

KARL & FABER
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Photo: Agostino Bonalumi, Struttura modulare bianca, 1970

25/08/2026

23/08/2026

Before the nails, there was the sea.
Günther Uecker grew up on the Wustrow peninsula on the Baltic coast — surrounded by water, wind and an endless horizon. This landscape remained an important point of reference throughout his life.
Later, light, movement and perception became central to his art. With his iconic nail works, Uecker transformed a simple everyday object into fields of changing shadows, rhythm and tension.
But the nail could also wound.
In Verletztes Feld, the ordered field is disrupted: nails pierce the surface, wood splinters break through it, and the physical force of the artist’s action remains visible.
In this edition of SUMMER STORIES, we trace a path from the quiet horizon of the Baltic Sea to one of the most powerful motifs in Uecker’s work.
Günther Uecker
Verletztes Feld, 1988
Sold at KARL & FABER for €42,000
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Photo: Lothar Wolleh, CC BY-SA 3.0

22/08/2026

Can you trust your eyes?
For Jesús Rafael Soto, art was never static. Lines vibrate, surfaces shift and space seems to dissolve, not because the work itself changes, but because we do.
A pioneer of Kinetic Art, Soto transformed movement and perception into the very subject of his work. The viewer is no longer simply looking at the artwork, but becomes part of its experience.
In this edition of SUMMER STORIES, we explore how Soto turned a change of perspective into a completely new way of seeing.

Jesús Rafael Soto
Azul y negro, 1971
Sold at KARL & FABER for €156,250

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Photo: Lothar Wolleh, CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: “Soto” solo exhibition, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, 1969 Photo André Morain

21/08/2026

What happens when the artist’s signature is enough to turn a human body into a work of art?

For Piero Manzoni, this was only one part of a much larger question: What makes something art?
From signed living sculptures and the artist’s breath to his radical Achromes, Manzoni continually challenged the boundaries between artist, artwork and material.
In this edition of SUMMER STORIES, we trace that idea back to one of its earliest manifestations: the seemingly silent, white surface of the Achrome.

Piero Manzoni
Achrome, 1957/58
Sold at KARL & FABER for €362,500

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