“Cash for rares”
“They bid and bid and bid”: Saleswoman can hardly believe her luck
saleswoman Annemarie Kleinsteuber leaves “Cash for Rares” with significantly more notes than hoped for
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She only wanted 500 euros, but in the end it was five times as much: For the saleswoman, the visit to “Bares für Rares” turned out to be a stroke of luck. The competition between two dealers contributed to this.
Annemarie Kleinsteuber brought a huge oil painting with her to “Cash for rares“. But at first Horst Lichter is primarily interested in his guest. The 80-year-old retired teacher from Sandkrug fascinates him: she tinkers with motorcycles in her free time. “You’re a bomb,” calls the moderator. “You You are now my heroine.”
The painting has Kleinsteuber received from her aunt. Her husband brought it into the marriage in the 1950s. As expert Bianca Berding explains, it comes from Wilhelm Klein, a 19th century artist who painted in a romantic style and is attributed to the Düsseldorf School. The picture shows a mountain landscape in the snow and was taken around 1865.
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Kleinsteuber puts her pain threshold at 500 euros. Berding’s expertise dispels doubts about whether this could work: she estimates the value at 1,200 to 1,500 euros. “I’m assuming some of this money goes into motorcycles?” asks lights – to which the senior woman says yes.
“Wilhelm Klein has painted a great painting,” welcomed Wolfgang Pauritsch the saleswoman entering the dealer’s room. “I’m opening the sleigh ride with 500 euros,” Julian Schmitz-Avila begins the auction. Several dealers are bidding, Pauritsch even compares the picture with the works of Caspar David Friedrich.
In a duel with Fabian Kahl The Austrians push the price higher and higher, and they soon leave the estimated value behind. When Kahl offers 2,000 euros, Pauritsch asks him: “Were you in the casino yesterday?”
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Kahl wasn’t in the casino, but he still continued to bid. At 2200 euros, Pauritsch wants to know when he’ll stop. “It fits into the castle,” explains Fabian Kahl. “You don’t have a castle, you have a caravan,” jokes Wolfgang Pauritsch, knowing full well that his competitor actually lives in Brandenstein Castle in Thuringia. Only at 2500 is the bidding war decided: the picture goes to Thuringia. The Austrian admits defeat. “My grandfather taught me: keep your attitude and lose it,” he says.
Annemarie Kleinsteuber is beaming from ear to ear afterwards: “It was breathtaking for me. They bid and bid and bid – and we far exceeded their expertise.”
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