COLOGNE.- Sotheby's Germany kicks off this year's autumn season in Cologne with the auction of Modern and Contemporary Discoveries. From 14 to 21 September 2023, the online sale, organised at Palais Oppenheim in Cologne, the German headquarter, will feature works by emerging young artists combined with works by renowned national and international artists such as Miriam Cahn, Cosima von Bonin, Sylvie Fleury, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Martin Kippenberger and George Rickey.

Spanning categories from modern and contemporary art, prints and multiples to photography and design, this auction is aimed to attract new and young art lovers as well as established art collectors.

In addition, there are highlights by artists such as Imi Knoebel, Gregor Hildebrandt, Kai Althoff and Fritz Winter, to name a few.

The auction offers a great opportunity to add a work to your existing collection or to start the foundation for a new collection with discoveries at an attractive price level.

The highlight exhibition is open for the public from 13 until 20 September 2023 (Monday to Friday 10.00 AM – 6.00 PM, Saturday 12.00 PM – 4.00 PM)

The top lot of the auction in Cologne represents Imi Knoebel's Rot Rot and is offered with an estimate of 70.000 - 100.000 €. Known as one of the most important German artists of the post-war period Knoebel frequently uses the colours red, yellow and blue in his minimal, abstract paintings or sculptures. The former student of Joseph Beuys at the Düsseldorf Art Academy concentrates on the signal colour red in this work from 2006 which is made of acrylic, aluminium and plastic. Knoebel's works can be found in numerous public collections worldwide.

Matching the red colour scheme, a delicate still life of the important German Female expressionist Gabriele Münter will be offered. Living and working in seclusion in Murnau, she executed Dahlias in circa 1940 in oil on paper. Estimated at 40.000 – 60.000 €, the work fits into the typical subjects, illustrating a great variety of still lifes, often flowers. Just this year, the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg honoured the co-founder of the artists’ movement Der Blaue Reiter with a show of almost 80 portraits, presenting her as a great and independent female artist of her time.

Also in red, Sotheby's will present Dema by Berta Fischer. The artist works - typical for her oeuvre - with acrylic glass. The present work was executed in 2013. Graceful, imaginative, refined, curved, folded, spiral, partly pointed, with a certain lightness, whether hung or placed, the sculptures of Fischer stand out in their luminous colours such as in Dema. With an attractive estimate of 5.000 - 7.000 € Fischer’s work is a particularly interesting discovery.