Auction Catalogues

Since 2020, auction catalogues primarily from German-speaking countries from the holdings of numerous partner institutions have been made available here in digital form with full-text search functionality.

Catalogues published on the occasion of an auction are outstanding sources for many art historical research questions (provenance research, catalogues raisonnés, authenticity questions, etc.), as they sometimes also contain references to former owners in addition to information on the work's identity (artist, title, dimensions, technique, condition, in some cases illustration). The high source value of auction catalogues is further enhanced by annotations. See ‘Hand copies and protocol catalogues’