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Karl & Faber Kunstauktionen GmbH is an art auction house founded in Munich in 1923 specializing in the 15th to 21st centuries.

History
To mark the company's 100th anniversary, the book First, Second, 100th KARL & FABER - Art Auctions since 1923 was published by Hanser Verlag.In 1923, the art historian Georg Karl and the German scholar Curt von Faber du Faur founded the Karl & Faber auction house in Munich. The focus of the art and literature antiquarian bookstore was initially on book sales and auctions. The first auction took place in 1927: The top lot “The Adventurous Simplicissimus” by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen from the Victor Manheimer Collection sold for 1,750 Reichsmarks. In 1939, Curt von Faber du Faur left the operational business and emigrated to the USA, where he initially worked as a visiting teacher at Harvard University and finally became a research associate professor at Yale in 1944.

Nazi era
Georg Karl ran the business alone. In the years that followed, auctions such as books from the library of the Augsburg merchant Markus Fugger or works from the collection of the Oettingen-Wallerstein princes took place. The 25th and final auction of the war years was moved to Murnau in 1944 for security reasons.

Postwar
In the post-war years, art was sold separately for the first time in the house's 30th auction.

Louis Karl, Georg Karl's then 19-year-old son, joined as an auctioneer in 1961 and took over the company as sole owner ten years later. He shifted the focus to art auctions..

In 2003, Rupert Keim and his family acquired the company. The range of contemporary art was expanded and various branches were opened in Europe and the USA. Significant auctions included the Walter Bareiss collection in 2007 and the auction of part of the Marvin and Janet Fishman collection in 2010, at which objects of German art from the 1920s and 1930s were auctioned.

The Adolf Erbslöh specialist committee was founded in 2015. It decides on the attribution or depreciation of works and issues certificates of authenticity. Since 2016, Karl & Faber has dedicated itself to research in addition to auctioning and communicating art. The auction house brought Adolf Erbslöh in 2016. Catalog raisonné of the paintings. The catalog raisonné for the artist Alexander Kanoldt followed in 2018. .

Sheila Scott joined the management in 2020 and the special auction “Tendencies of Abstraction” showcased an artistic spectrum that had previously received little attention.

Nazi era restitution claims
Several artworks that passed through the auction house have been the object of restitution claims and lawsuits. These incude actions by the heirs of Max Stern, concerning Hans von Marées: Uhlans on the March (1859) and Lovis Corinths Aquarell "Walchensee" (1923) which had belonged to Curt Glaser.

Auctions
The company is divided into the Old Masters, 19th Century, Modern Art and Contemporary Art departments. One focus of the activities is provenance research. Headquartered in Munich, the auction house has branches in Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Tegernsee, Basel, London, Italy as well as in Austria and the USA. In Munich, Karl & Faber holds six regular auctions per year, In 2022, the auction house auctioned off works worth around 23 million euros.

Special auctions

 * 2022: Herbstauktion mit Sammlung Grčić
 * 2022: Frühjahrsauktion mit Anything Goes
 * 2021: Weiß White Bianco Blanc
 * 2020: Tendenzen der Abstraktion
 * 2018: Reiz der Linie – Sammlung Preuss
 * 2017: Neuentdeckte Zeichnungen der Künstlerfamilie Dandini (Teil II)
 * 2016: Wilhelm Busch. Der Maler
 * 2016: Neuentdeckte Zeichnungen von Pompeo Batoni und der Künstlerfamilie Dandini (Teil I)
 * 2016: Space Oddity – NASA-Fotografien
 * 2015: Druckgraphik des deutschen Expressionismus mit Werken aus der Ahlers Collection
 * 2009: Sammlung Johann Nepomuk Seiler – Druckgraphik des 19. Jahrhunderts
 * 2007: Arbeiten auf Papier des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts
 * 2005: Arbeiten auf Papier des 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderts

Sales exhibitions and other events
Jedes Jahr veranstaltet Karl & Faber Verkaufsausstellungen moderner und zeitgenössischer Werke. Alle drei Jahre findet zudem die Preisträgerausstellung des Karl & Faber Preises der Stiftung Kunstakadamie München in den Auktionsräumen statt.


 * August 2021: Karl Bohrmann – drawings and collages 1961 – 1995 September 2020: 3rd prize winner exhibition: Karl & Faber Prize of the Munich Art Academy Foundation


 * July 2019: Jürgen Zumbrunnen - From the estate of works 1990 - 2015 June / September 2018: SPUR group: NOW! Works from 1958 to 1965 March 2018: Klaus Fußmann on his 80th birthday October 2017: 2nd prize winner exhibition: Karl & Faber Prize of the Munich Art Academy Foundation September 2017: Werner Berges, Ensalada Mixta – Pop and other ingredients July / August 2017: Gotthard Graubner, For the love of paper March 2017: Theodor Werner – Space of the Soul (sales exhibition in aid of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich) March 2017: Heino Naujoks – Stations