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Three Minutes of Fine Art Conversation - Review from Art Basel 2025 visiting the booth of LANDAU FINE ART, and my husband Horst, Nissa (Landau Fine Art, Gallery manager in Montreal), and me in a wonderful conversation with Mrs. Landau about Mr. Werner Merzbacher #TheMerzbacherCollection in front of the masterwork ‚Spanische Tänzerin’ (Spanish Dancer), 1909, by Alexej von Jawlensky (1864 - 1941).

Oil on cardboard. Signed and dated in the upper left. 100 x 69,5 cm (39.3 x 27.3 in.). With the expressionist Murnau landscape on the reverse.

Lot 38, Auction 550 ‚Evening Sale‘, June 07, 2024 in Munich at Ketterer Kunst @kettererkunst.de @robertketterer_kettererkunst.
Estimate: € 7,000,000 / $ 8,120,000
Sold: € 8,338,000 / $ 9,672,080 to LANDAU FINE ART, Montreal (Canada).

Jawlensky‘s portraits from 1909 and 1910 are considered milestones of European Modernism. „Spanish Dancer“ - a masterpiece of unbridled expressionist quality, comparable to Jawlensky‘s famous „Portrait of the Dancer Aleksandr Sakharov“, 1909 (Courtesy of Städtische Galerie @lenbachhaus, Munich).

„There are only very few paintings by Alexej von Jawlensky showcasing this level of quality, and most of them have been museum-owned for many decades. […] The ‚Spanish Dancer‘ is one of those few exceptional Jawlensky paintings that have made for the artist‘s worldwide fame today, just as they caused a sensation and provided inspiration back then.“
- Roman Zieglgänsberger, Modern Art Curator, Museum Wiesbaden @museumwiesbaden

@artbasel @ubsglobalart 2025

Capt. by @andreajankeofficial

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GERHARD RICHTER (born 1932 in Dresden, lives and works in Köln).
‚Abstraktes Bild‘ (Abstract Painting), 1989. Verso signed, dated, and numbered „704-3“.
Oil on canvas, 72 x 62 cm, was sold in June Auction 2025 by Ketterer Kunst, Munich, for € 1,802,500.

Thanks for having us at the pre-view in May.
@kettererkunst.de @robertketterer_kettererkunst
@miriamskunstblick at @bernhad_knaus_fine_art

A blockbaster Gerhard Richter retrospective, co-organized by Sir Nicholas Serota, the former director of Tate, will co-curate the vast retrospective of 270 featured works by the influential German artist Gerhard Richter at the Foundation Louis Vuitton @fondationlv in Paris from 17 October - 2 March 2026.

„[The Fondation] is honoring the artist with an exceptional retrospective, unmatched both in scale and in chronological scope, featuring 270 works stretching from 1962 to 2024,“ says a statement. Works in a variety of media, from paintings to pencil and ink drawings, watercolours, and overpainted photographs, will go on show.

Gerhard Richter
‚Abstraktes Bild‘ (Abstract Painting), 1987
Oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm, CR 649-1. Signed, dated, and numbered verso RICGE1266, presented by David Zwirner - Art Gallery, NYC
@davidzwirner at @artbasel 2025 @ubsglobalart

Works by Gerhard are held in collections of @tate @artinstitutechi @themuseumofmodernart @albertinamuseum a.o.

#GerhardRichter #GerardRichterAbstraction
#FondationLouisVuitton #ContemporaryArt #FondationLouisVuittonParis
#ArtBasel2025 #UBSGlobalArt - ANDREA JANKE I Fine Art #ANDREAJANKEFineArt

Impression from the 375. Auction Preview „Selected Works“ Grisebach Berlin, last week in Frankfurt.

Max Beckmann (Leipzig 1884 - 1950 New York)

„Springbrunnen in Baden-Baden“, 1936.
Oil on canvas, 65 - 95 cm. On the cardboard backing labels of the exhibitions Stuttgart 2004 and Basel 2011/12. Catalogue raisonné: Tiedemann/Göpel MB-G442 (online catalogue raisonné). [107]. Framed.

Estimate: EUR 400,000 - 600,000 / USD 471,000 - 706,000

Lot 15 / Auction 375 „Selected Works“ by Grisebach Auctions, Thursday, 04.06.2026, 6:00 PM.

Beckmann’s „Springbrunnen in Baden-Baden“ (Fountain in Baden-Baden), painted in 1936, belongs to an important late German phase of Work - the years immediately before his exile from Nazi Germany.

This painting was created during Beckmann’s repeated stays in Baden-Baden between 1935 and 1937. These visits were partly for health reasons and partly a retreat from the increasingly oppressive political atmosphere in Berlin under the Nazi regime. In 1933 Beckmann had lost his teaching position at the Städelschule in Frankfurt after the Nazis came to power. Only a year after this painting, in 1937, he emigrated for 12 years to Amsterdam.

Because of this context, the Baden-Baden works are often interpreted not simply as landscapes or city scenes, but as psychologically charged images reflecting uncertainty, withdrawal, and inner tension.

Today, major collections of his work are held in:

@themuseumofmodernart
@metmuseum
@stlartmuseum
@staedel

And some works at @kunsthauszuerich #TheMerzbacherCollection

Thanks to Dr. Britta von Campenhausen @bvcffm having us at the preview in Frankfurt at @salonkennedy, and a huge thank you for the art catalogues!

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Sincerely Yours, Andréa

#MaxBeckmann Expressionism #Grisebach #ANDREAJANKEFineArt AJFineArt ContemporaryArt

„Art is the highest form of hope“. - Gerhard Richter was born February 9, 1932 in Dresden, Germany. Richter is regarded as one on of the most important German artists in history. Since the early 1980s the artist has frequently made abstract works by applying layers of paint, and then wiping a squeegee across the canvas.

GERHARD RICHTER at The Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, honored Richter‘s centennial achievement with a spectacular retrospective of 275 featured works by the influential German artist Gerhard Richter @fondationlv from October 2025 until March 2026.

Gerhard Richter’s “Abstract Painting (780-3)” (Abstraktes Bild), painted in 1992, 260 x 200 cm, is recorded in the official catalogue raisonné as belonging to the Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland.
The @daroscollection itself is a major Swiss private collection rather than a permanent public museum. Parts of the collection have been shown at institutions such as:
@fondationbeyeler
@museumbarberini
@museummodernerkunstkaernten

Technically, this painting belongs to Richter’s important early-1990s squeegee abstraction period.
Painting Technique in “Abstract Painting (780-3)” Richter built the surface through repeated layering of oil paint and mechanical intervention rather than traditional expressive brushwork. Estimated Market Value: $ 8-15 million.
Capt. by @andrea.j_finearts / @andreajankeofficial on January 26, 2026, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris.

#GerhardRichter #GerhardRichterAbstraction
#FondationLouisVuittonParis #ANDREAJANKEFineArt AJFineArt

The Merzbacher Collection - The Chipperfield extension-building of Kunsthaus Zürich presents a selection from the private collection of the Merzbacher Foundation, Gabriele and Werner Merzbacher. #TheMerzbacherCollection represents a celebration of color from the 19th to 21st century. Masterpieces by Monet, Sisley, Matisse and Kandinsky. Max Beckmann and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Picasso’s Blue Period. Bridget Riley, Alexander Calder and many more.

Maurice de Vlaminck (French, 1876 - 1958)
„Dancer of the ‚Rat Mort‘ (The Girl with the Hat)“, 1905/06
Oil on canvas, 77 x 65,5, cm.
Signed lower left: Vlaminck

Franz Marc (German, 1880 - 1916)
„Landscape with House, Dog and Cow“, 1914
Oil on canvas, 66 - 71 cm.
Lankheit 232.

Heinrich Campendonk (German, 1889 - 1957)
„Large Landscape“, c. 1918/20
Oil on canvas, 74,5 x 99,55 cm.
Signed and titled on stretcher:
Campendonk Grosse Landschaft.

„The Balcony“, 1913
Oil on canvas, 87,5 x 76 cm.
Signed and dated lower left:
H. CAMPENDONK 1913,
(signed and dated on reverse).

Alexej von Jawlensky (Russian, 1864 - 1941)
„Stillleben mit gelber und weißer Kanne“, 1908
Oil on canvas, 49,6 x 53,8 cm.
Signed in oil paint on the lower left:
„A. Jawlensky, on the right with the monogram „A. J“

Around 70 masterpieces from the #MerzbacherCollection are on minimum commitment of 20 years to Kunsthaus Zürich in a“Feast of Color“. The fruit of a long-term cooperation between Werner Merzbacher and Kunsthaus Zürich featuring key-figures of Impressionism Expressionism, the ‚Fauves‘, ‚Brücke‘ and ‚Blaue Reiter‘, Futurists and Constructivists as well as more recent positions from Lohse to Pipilotti Rist’s immersive art installation „Pixel Forest Turicum“, 2021.

Capt. @andreajankeofficial at @Kunsthauszuerich

Sincerely Yours, Andréa

#WernerMerzbacher #WernerMerzbacherTheSoulOfArt #KunsthausZürich Blaue Reiter Die Brücke Impressionism Expressionism ArtCollection ContemporaryArt

‚Vibrations des Plantes‘ (Vibrations of Plants) presents new works by Swiss artist Barbara Ellmerer, whose practice is thoroughly devoted to the inner life of plants. The exhibitions featured works that emerge from the artist‘s seismographic perceptions: her brushwork transforms vibrations, flows, and condensations into layers of vibrating color.

Solo-exhibition from 17th March - 23rd May, 2026 at Gallery Andres Thalmann Paris, 70 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris / @barbaraellmerer @galerieandresthalmannparis / @galerieandresthalmann Zürich.

Barbara Ellmerer (*1956), lives and works in Zürich, and is primarily associated with contemporary abstract painting. The œvre of Swiss artist Barbara Ellmerer combines a curiosity for natural science with an intensive exploration of the medium of painting. In her works, the artist alternates between perspectives - from the external appearance of a plant to its internal structures. The artist sometimes uses unusual painting media such as silver nitrate, varnish and fluorescent colours on canvas or paper. Where ductus and composition alone are no longer sufficient for the artist to depict these concentrated forces, she resorts, to the meansof the luminous colourfulness of a neon green or rose vif.

Image 1: ‚Organell Margulis 3‘, 2022. Oil on canvas, 230 x 160 cm.

Image 2: ‚Raublatt 4‘, 2024. Calligraphy ink on Hahnemühle, 185 x 125 cm.

Image 3: ‚Raublatt 2‘, 2024. Calligraphy ink on Hahnemühle, 185 x 125 cm.

Imade 4: ‚Raublatt 5‘, 2024. Calligraphy ink on Hahnemühle. 185 x 125 cm.

Prices on request Gallery Andres Thalmann or DM me.

Photo Credit ©️ Gallery Andres Thalmann

Sincerely Yours, Andréa

#BarbaraEllmerer #ContemporaryArt @ambassadesuissefrance #AndresThalmannParis #AndresThalmann #ANDREAJANKEFineArt AJFineArt

We first met Gallery Andres Thalmann @andresthalmann Zürich at The House of Galleries (Volume ll Frankfurt, 22 - 25 January, 2026 @thefrankfurtartexperience) TRIANON Skyscraper Frankfurt, 44th floor, where the gallery presented Eamon O‘Kane @okaneeamon, and than view days later in the Paris-based gallery, where they presented Joan Hernández Pijuan ‚Tornar a Paris‘ @hernandezpijuan.

An now, an exhibition worth to visit: Barbara Ellmerer - ‚Vibrations des Plantes‘

Solo-exhibition from 17th March - 23rd May, 2026 at Gallery Andres Thalmann Paris, 70 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris / @barbaraellmerer @galerieandresthalmannparis @galerieandresthalmann Zürich.

Barbara Ellmerer (*1956), lives and works in Zürich, and is primarily associated with contemporary abstract painting. The œvre of Swiss artist Barbara Ellmerer combines a curiosity for natural science with an intensive exploration of the medium of painting. In her works, the artist alternates between perspectives - from the external appearance of a plant to its internal structures. The artist sometimes uses unusual painting media such as silver nitrate, varnish and fluorescent colours on canvas or paper. Where ductus and composition alone are no longer sufficient for the artist to depict these concentrated forces, she resorts, to the meansof the luminous colourfulness of a neon green or rose vif.

Image 1: Barbara Ellmerer, Installation View, Paris

Image 2: Gallery View, Paris

Image 3: ‚Vibration‘, 2026. Ink on paper on aluminium.
130 x 220 cm.

Imade 4: ‚Xylem‘, 2024. Calligraphy ink on Hahnemühle on aluminium. 185 x 125 cm.

Image 5: Installation View, Paris.

Image 6: ‚Tulip‘, 2021. Oil on canvas. 50 x 60 cm.

Image 7: ‚Wink‘, 2021. Oil on canvas. 200 x 150 cm.

Image 8: Installation View, Zürich.

Image 9: ‚Golgi-Body Studie‘, 2024. Oil, fluorescent colour on canvas. 140 x 100 cm.

Prices on request Gallery Andres Thalmann or DM me.

Photo Credit ©️ Gallery Andres Thalmann

Sincerely Yours, Andréa

#BarbaraEllmerer #ContemporaryArt @ambassadesuissefrance @chasedoolan #AndresThalmannParis #AndresThalmann #ANDREAJANKEFineArt AJFineArt

Into The Blue - We totally love this blue position by Hendrik Zimmer ‚Pani Puna‘, 2025.

Coloured wood block print on canvas, painter‘s frame, oak. 100 x 100 cm. Price on request. @galerieheikestrelow
Actually on show at Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt am Main. @studiohendrikzimmer

„With modern art, the role of blue began to change. In Expressionism, artists used blue to express mood and inner states. […] In abstract art, the effect of blue often emerges through its nuances. Different shades of blue evoke associations such as calm, depth, or distance. […]“ - @galerieheikestrelow

Hendrik Zimmer was graduated in 2008 at Academy of Fine Art at Städelschule Frankfurt,@staedelmuseum with the title Meisterschüler / Master Student under Professor Tobias Rehberger @studio_tobias_rehberger.

‚Like a Painting by Sculpture‘ or ‚Painting through Sculpture’ was entitled a solo-exhibition in 2024 at Galerie Heike Strelow - Hendrik Zimmer (*1973) lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. With his foundation in sculpting, Zimmer quickly turned towards abstract painting by creating collages and décollages. He obtains materials like billboards, prints off street, collect books and newspapers with themes of his interest, bringing the outside world into his studio where he transforms it into large-formatted paintings. This involvesten to twelve layers of paint and paper, applied and removed, imprinted with recurring forms and symbols and then partially scraped off again.

More on my prev. post about the exhibition on https//:www.instagram.com/reel/C6EJ7ORsTOO/

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Sincerely Yours, Andréa

#HendrikZimmer #GalerieHeikeStrelow #AbstractExpressionism #ANDREAJANKEFineArt AJFineArt #AbstractArt

Jessica Backhaus l Shadows Might Dance

Solo-exhibition until 26 April 2026 at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt / @jessica_backhaus @fff.gram.
Jessica Backhaus (*1970 in Cuxhaven, Germany), at the age of sixteen, she moved to Paris, where she later studied photography and visual communications. Here she met Gisele Freund in 1992, who became her mentor. In 1995 her passion for photography drew her to New York, pursued her own projects and lived until 2009.

Jessica Backhaus is regarded as one of the most distinguished voices in contemporary photography in Germany today.

„PAPYRUS - New photography series by Jessica Backhaus „Papyrus is a tribute to paper and its central role for centuries as a medium for storing, transmitting, and perserving knowledge. With this new work, I continue to explore the boundaries of abstraction and reduce visual language to its most elementary forms.“ - Jessica Backhaus

Left to right:
Plate 14, 2025
Plate 13, 2025
Plate 45, 2025
Plate 3, 2025
Plate 8, 2024
Plate 36, 2025
Plate 49, 2025
Plate 31, 2025
Plate 41, 2025
Plate 62, 2025
Archival Pigment Prints
Courtesy the artist, and @robertmorat Gallery, Berlin

Available as limited Fine Art Prints.

The second series-extrait entitled ‚Plein Soleil‘. In Plein Soleil, Backhaus presents a stunning visual symphony where the compositional interplay of colour, surface, and form reigns supreme. Through minimalist compilations of reality‘s set pieces, Jessica crafts works that transcend the ordinary, transporting viewers into vibrant, luminous worlds full of life energy.

For available works, acquisition inquiries, personalised advice, you can contact Petra Becker @petrabecker.art or @andrea.j_finearts, @andreajankeofficial.

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Sincerely Your, Andréa

#JessicaBackhaus #ShadowsMightDance #Papyrus #ContemporaryPhotography #PetraBeckerArt InternationalArtBridge #AbstractPhotography #FineArtPrints FineArtPhotography #ANDREAJANKEFineArt

Eric Mangen l Forever Wild Child

Eric Mangen, born 1983, lives and works in Luxembourg, is a contemporary abstract artist known for his energetic, large-scale paintings that merge gesture, material experimention, and controlled chaos. Mangen has worked internationally, with residences and exhibitions in the USA, Australia and across Europe, and now the painter’s first solo-exhibition in Germany at Galerie Heike Strelow from 19 February - 11 April 2026 / @ericmangen at @galerieheikestrelow.

His artistic approach is based on the creation of backgrounds on which, like collages, he perpetually constructs and deconstructs. He principally works in large formats, as this space enables him to express with free movement. Mangen‘s approach to abstraction has its roots in graffiti of the late 1990s.

The canvas becomes the site of action. In art history, this work connects to positions such as Jackson Pollock-like energy, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline.

Eric Mangen

‚You have to die to become pretty‘, 2026
Acrylic, oil and spray paint on canvas.
190 x 250 cm. € 13,000.00.

‚La Pluma‘, 2026.
Acrylic, oil and spray paint on canvas, painter‘s frame.
185 x 165 cm. € 8,800.00.

‚I ALWAYS IMAGINED WHAT I WOULD BE LIKE TO HAVE A TWIN BROTHE 2‘, 2024.
Acrylic, spray paint and oil stick on canvas, framed.
194 x 144 cm. € 8,500.00

‚Jason‘s Waterfall‘, 2026.
Acrylic, oil and spray paint on canvas, painter‘s frame.
176 x 115 cm. € 7,300.00.

‚Cry me a River‘, 2026.
Acrylic, oil and spray paint on canvas.
186 x 140 cm. € 8,200.00.

‚FOREVER WILD CHILD‘, 2026.
Acrylic, oil and spray paint on canvas.
210 x 160 cm. € 9,300.00.

‚I ALWAYS IMAGINED WHAT IT WOLD BE LIKE TO HAVE TWIN BROTHER‘, 2024.
Acrylic, spray paint and oil stick on canvas, painter‘s frame. 194 x 144 cm. € 8,500.00.

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Sincerely Yours, Andréa

#EricMangen #GalerieHeikeStrelow #ContemporaryAbstraction ActionPainting GraffitiCulture #ANDREAJANKEFineArt AJFineArt

MONETS COAST - The Discovery of Étretat

Great exhibition from 19. March to 5. July 2026 at Städel Museum in collaboration with the Musée des Beaux-Arts Lyon @staedelmuseum @mba_lyon @staedelverein.

The coast town of Étretat has become a myth - and continues to fascinate to this day. Its cliffs, located in Normandy on the Atlantic coast, captivated numerous artists in the 19th century. Claude Monet was so fascinated by their unique shapes and the three natural rock arches, who returned to this landscape again and again, painting the famous rock formations more than 80 times. Alongside Monet, the exhibition also features works by other important figures in modern and contemporary art, such as Gustave Courbet, Henri Matisse, Eugène Le Poittevin, Camille Corot, Eugène Boudin and Elger Esser, revealing how this unique place inspired generations of painters and shaped modern art.

Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)

‚The Needle and the Porte d‘Aval‘, 1885. Oil on canvas. Courtesy: @clarkart

3D model of the Étretat cliffs by @iconem
Original sound (in Städel) by @wolfram_gruss

‚The Rock Needle and the Porte d‘Aval, Étretat‘, 1885.
Oil on canvas. Courtesy: @fitzmuseum_uk

‚Étretat: The Manneport, 1883.
Oil on canvas. Courtesy: @metmuseum

‚Étretat: The Manneport‘, 1885/86.
Oil on canvas. Courtesy: @metmuseum

‚The Needle and the Porte d‘Aval‘, 1885.
Oil on canvas. Courtesy: @clarkart

‚Boats on the Beach at Étretat‘, 1883.
Oil on canvas. Courtesy: @collection_bemberg

Capt. @andreajankeofficial (20. March 2026)

Sincerely Yours, Andréa

#Étretat #Monet #Städelmuseum #ANDREAJANKEFineArt AJFineArt

MONETS COAST - The Discovery of Étretat

Great exhibition from 19. March to 5. July 2026 at Städel Museum in collaboration with the Musée des Beaux-Arts Lyon.
@staedelmuseum @mba_lyon @staedelverein.

The coast town of Étretat has become a myth - and continues to fascinate to this day. Its cliffs, located in Normandy on the Atlantic coast, captivated numerous artists in the 19th century. Claude Monet was so fascinated by their unique shapes and the three natural rock arches, who returned to this landscape again and again, painting the famous rock formations more than 80 times. Alongside Monet, the exhibition also features works by other important figures in modern and contemporary art, such as Gustave Courbet, Henri Matisse, Eugène Le Poittevin, Camille Corot, Eugène Boudin and Elger Esser, revealing how this unique place inspired generations of painters and shaped modern art.

Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)

‚The Needle and the Porte d‘Aval‘, 1885. Oil on canvas. Courtesy: @clarkart

3D model of the Étretat cliffs by @iconem
Original sound (in Städel) by @wolfram_gruss

‚The Rock Needle and the Porte d‘Aval, Étretat‘, 1885.
Oil on canvas. Courtesy: @fitzmuseum_uk

‚Étretat: The Manneport, 1883.
Oil on canvas. Courtesy: @metmuseum

‚Étretat: The Manneport‘, 1885/86.
Oil on canvas. Courtesy: @metmuseum

‚The Needle and the Porte d‘Aval‘, 1885.
Oil on canvas. Courtesy: @clarkart

Capt. @andreajankeofficial / @andrea.j_finearts ( 20. March 2026)

Sincerely Yours, Andréa

#Étretat #Monet #Städelmuseum #ANDREAJANKEFineArt AJFineArt