Germany
Can any fair kickstart the Berlin art market?
In a city of artists but few collectors, an overhauled fair hopes to drum up trade against competition from established Art Cologne and a new Düsseldorf event
Show by late curator Martin Roth goes ahead in Qatar despite Gulf blockade
German design survey has opened alongside Deutsche Bank collection exhibition in beleaguered state
Germany stumps up €400m for Prussian palaces and parks
Funding will benefit Potsdam’s Sanssouci and Berlin’s Charlottenburg palaces
How Luise Dorothea became the grandmother of German Classicism
An exhibition in Gotha looks at her influence
Tate pairs off Weimar-era artists Dix and Sander for a discussion about the failed republic
The two exhibitions will evoke a dialogue about their shared themes
From the archive, 1 October 1990: 'We did not pursue any party political nonsense on the Museum Island'
On the 25th anniversary of German reunification, we republish our first ever front-page story, in which East Berlin museums chief Günter Schade defends his record and reveals how East German museums sold in order to buy
Germany's attempt to permanently retain Otto Dix print collection belonging to George Economou fails
Tycoon keeps 500-strong collection after German campaign to include it in national heritage list is thwarted
Anger at casino Warhol sale
The works are being sold by Westdeutsche Spielbanken to raise funds for restructuring
The scholarly battle over Beuys
Let’s admit it: without the artist to explain and animate his work, much of it is incomprehensible
Ruling in Germany’s supreme court on the rights to images of performance art favours museum
Beuys show can go on
Russian avant-garde forgery case spreads to Israel
After hundreds of works are seized in Germany, police swoop in Tel Aviv
German museum wants to swap its Giacometti for another Giacometti
The Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg wants to sell the sculpture La Jambe—a key work in its collection—so it can purchase a painting by the artist
Victims of forgery are ‘left in limbo’ by legal proceedings
Recent high-profile trials mean collectors are wondering where to turn if they think they have fakes
Beltracchi admits to faking the work of an estimated 50 artists in German interview
In 2011, he was given six years jail time for what was then understood to be a much smaller number of reproductions
Germany supports research into Russia’s wartime losses
Archives of the western allies will be searched for clues
Knoedler forgery scandal grows
The gallery is being sued over an alleged fake Pollock, sold for $17m in 2007
Number of Beltracchi fakes keeps on rising
Fortunately for the German art forger, he has fled the country and therefore cannot be investigated
The stench of war lingers in Dresden's Museum of Military History thanks to Sissel Tolaas
Visitors to the museum can sample the smell of World War I
Beuys returns to Schloss Moyland after refurbishment
Some works will not be on display, lest the museum incur a €250,000 copyright fine
Man who posed as count in Giacometti scam handed nine-year sentence by German courts
This ruling concludes a case launched after discovery of 1,150 fake sculptures
Interview with Thomas Struth: “Photographs reveal people’s inner agenda”
On the eve of his solo show at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Struth talks about society, the family and the gaze
Interview with Neo Rauch ahead of his German retrospective: “You won’t find an ‘Untitled’ among my works”
The painter on the burdens of being a professor, the need for figures and his prophetic abilities
Harald Falckenberg on art as adventure, working with the Hamburg Deichtorhallen, and owning 150 works by Richard Prince
“Collectors have a tendency to self-delusion”
Interview with Jonathan Meese: "I am the samurai of art”
The German artist explains why he puts aggression and provocation centre stage—along with his mum
Beuys’s site-specific work to stay put in Krefeld (for now)
Collector Helga Lauffs has donated the works, subject to conditions
Giacometti 'fakes' seized in alleged counterfeiting ring in Germany
A series of books, presumed to have been written by the suspect and claiming the artist's brother hid a secret stash of his works, were presented as provenance
Copyright dispute over Joseph Beuys show in Germany
The Moyland Castle Museum closed the exhibition but plans to appeal
Books: How America took on the propaganda war in occupied Germany
A study of US arts policy and the ideology of denazification in post-war Germany
Battle over Joseph Beuys collection at Moyland Castle
Widow claims artist’s reputation is being damaged