Franz Gertsch

Swiss | 1930

Franz Gertsch is a Swiss Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1930. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Pinakothek der Moderne have featured Franz Gertsch's work in the past.Franz Gertsch's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 89 USD to 3,337,072 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2000 the record price for this artist at auction is 3,337,072 USD for LUCIANO II, sold at Sotheby's London in 2017. Franz Gertsch has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, Art in America and The New York Times. The most recent article is TEFAF-Maastricht Celebrates Stellar Sales to Museums and Private Collectors, Including Contemporary Blockbusters That Captured My Gaze During Previews written for Forbes in March 2023.

Patti Smith IV, 1979

Acrylic on canvas.

285.1 x 420.7 cm. (112 1/4 x 165 5/8 in).

Dominique, 1988

Woodcut in colour on Japan paper

275 x 219 cm.

Pestwurz IV, 1993 - 1994

Pastel drawing

207x313 cm 276x382 cm 207x313 cm 276x382 cm

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At Auction

Recent Auction Results

Wasser

By Franz Gertsch

+54%

above mid-estimate

Van Ham Fine Art Auctions

Gelber Enzian (Zinnober) 2003

By Franz Gertsch

Venator & Hanstein

Liegende (oranger Hintergrund), 1969

By Franz Gertsch

+90%

above mid-estimate

Rusterholtz Galerie and Auktionen

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Current Exhibitions

Franz Gertsch: Rüschegg Earth

Museum Franz Gertsch

Burgdorf | Switzerland

Mar 23,2024 - Sep 01,2024

Mix & Match. Rediscovering The Collection

Pinakothek der Moderne

Munich | Germany

Sep 15,2022 - Dec 31,2024

Extreme Tension: Art Between Politics And Society 1945–1990

Neue Nationalgalerie

Mitte | Berlin | Germany

Nov 18,2023 - Sep 28,2025

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Articles

TEFAF-Maastricht Celebrates Stellar Sales to Museums and Private Collectors, Including Contemporary Blockbusters That Captured My Gaze During Previews

Forbes 20/03/2023

Kehinde Wiley’s exquisite, monumental Portrait of Tarek Ali Ellis (2023) sold to a private collector for $950,000, underscoring Sean Kelly of New York’s phenomenal debut at Europe’s preeminent global art fair.

Andy Warhol to Damien Hirst: The Revolution in Printmaking Now Open at the Albertina Modern

ArtDaily 28/02/2023

Andy Warhol to Damien Hirst. The Revolution in Printmaking is part two in the grand trio of print-themed exhibitions that the ALBERTINA Museum is showing this year.

The Flag Art Foundation Opens an Exhibition of Works Drawn from the Collection of Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman

ArtDaily 26/06/2022

Drawn from the collection of Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman, founders of The FLAG Art Foundation, and curated by Cynthia Daignault, Awol Erizku, and Ewan Gibbs...

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Coverage

“ ..Franz Gertsch became known for his photorealistic and hyperrealistic painting... ”
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Museum Frieder Burda

“ ..Assembled from diverse prestigious museums and private collections, the loans document the starting point for Franz Gertsch’s rich oeuvre of paintings, drawings and prints... ”
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Museum Franz Gertsch

“ ..Gertsch’s longstanding artistic interest in the mirror as a surface on which a myriad of such identities might be perceived is captured in a small collection of early works... ”
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Swiss Institute

“ ..Visitors to the museum can trace the diverse facets of the motif variations employed by Franz Gertsch in his work, including the female portrait, grasses, butterbur, Schwarzwasser river and landscapes... ”
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Museum Franz Gertsch

“ ..Produced in the same format as ‘Gräser I’ [Grasses I], ‘Gräser V’ [Grasses V] (2018) is a work about which the artist said while working on it that it felt like it painted itself... ”
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Museum Franz Gertsch