Market dispatch·Berlin
€30 to €300: Lempertz Berlin opens a take-it-home art sale for first-time collectors
Lempertz Berlin will sell around 300 works at fixed prices of €30 to €300 from 27 November, aimed at first-time collectors, alongside an online timed auction of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft collection whose proceeds support emerging artists.

Lempertz Berlin is trying a different route into collecting. From 27 November, its ART TO GO sale will offer around 300 works at fixed prices, in six colour-coded bands from €30 to €300, and buyers can carry their purchase home the same evening.
The selection is built mainly from prints and works on paper, with photography, paintings and art objects alongside. Names in the sale include Candida Höfer, Horst Antes, Horst Janssen, Emil Cimiotti, Gernot Bubenik and Corinne Wasmuht. The six price bands — €30, €50, €100, €150, €200 and €300 — are colour-coded through the display, so visitors can browse by budget at a glance. The opening sale runs on 27 November from 7 to 11 pm, with further selling days on 28 November and from 30 November to 4 December at the auction house's Berlin rooms on Poststraße.
Running in parallel, from 27 November to 11 December, Lempertz will hold an online timed auction of works from the collection of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, the German business association's cultural body, founded in 1951. The institution has asked Lempertz to sell its collection, and the proceeds will go towards supporting emerging artists, continuing its long-standing commitment to new work, including through its ars viva Prize. Further works from the same collection will also appear in Lempertz's main auctions.
The format is deliberately pitched at people with no collecting experience. Rather than a conventional auction with estimates and bidding, ART TO GO sets a flat price for each work and lets visitors browse, choose and leave with the art in hand.


