ART & DESIGN
Art Basel Miami Dispatch: Day One
Photographer: Walter Pfeiffer
As he celebrates his 50th anniversary as a gallerist— and rabble-rouser—Michael Werner is still firing spitballs from the back of the class. Christopher Bagley visits the legendary art dealer in his castle outside Berlin.
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At his schloss outside Berlin, 2012, seated in front of Per Kirkeby’s Untitled, 1981.
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Werner’s Schloss Märkisch Wilmersdorf, a 19th-century take on a medieval castle.
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Werner at home outside Berlin, 2012 .
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His library with its Schinkel chandelier.
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With Markus Lüpertz’s Der Apoll, 1989
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A guest room lined with wallpaper by de Gournay.
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Werner handpicked the delft tiles in the kitchen from all over Europe.
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Lüpertz’s Nach Poussin, 1989, in the sitting room.