Peter Behrens
German · 1868–1940 · Painter, Printmaker
Peter Behrens was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career,… (Wikipedia)
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Record prices
Der KussGrisebach · €7,750≈ $8,803≈ £6,903Sign up to see
Die Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft 1883–1908“ – Festschrift der AEG zu ihrem 25-jährigen BestehenGrisebach · €7,500≈ $8,351≈ £6,613Sign up to see
Wine glassim Kinsky · €3,200≈ $3,570≈ £2,821Sign up to see
Peter Behrens’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).
ArtSell has recorded 27 auction results for Peter Behrens between 2002 and 2026, of which 20 sold (74%). Recorded sale prices range from $224Sign up free to see to $8.8kSign up free to see. The highest price recorded is $8.8kSign up free to see for Der Kuss at Grisebach in December 2018. The most common medium is woodcuts & linocuts (11 lots). Most results come from Schmidt Kunstauktionen Dresden (6), im Kinsky (5) and Wright (3).
28 results
- Jugendstil dressing table mirror, c. 1900-1910$732≈ £541≈ €624Sign up free to see
- Der Kuss, 1898€1,100≈ $1,272≈ £954Sign up free to see
- Wall clock, c. 1935$1,143≈ £858≈ €982Sign up free to see
- Flying Lady table lampAfter the artistSold
- Pair of Osiris pewter vases, c.1910£180≈ $224≈ €215Sign up free to see
- Der Ku_ (The Kiss), 1898€432≈ $476≈ £370Sign up free to see
- Fan, c. 1908$500≈ £384≈ €459Sign up free to see
- €1,290≈ $1,499≈ £1,090Sign up free to see
- £525≈ $731≈ €609Sign up free to see
- €7,500≈ $8,351≈ £6,613Sign up free to see
Peter Behrens prints (14)Peter Behrens woodcuts & linocuts (11)Peter Behrens sculpture (3)
Peter Behrens: quick facts
What is the highest price paid for a work by Peter Behrens at auction?
$8,803Sign up free to see, for Der Kuss at Grisebach (December 2018) — the highest price in ArtSell’s records.
What is a typical auction price for Peter Behrens?
The median sale price is $1.5kSign up free to see across 20 priced sales. Prices vary by medium, size and date — see the price chart & statistics.
How many works by Peter Behrens have sold at auction?
20 of 27 recorded lots sold between 2002 and 2026.
Which auction houses sell Peter Behrens?
Schmidt Kunstauktionen Dresden, im Kinsky and Wright account for the most recorded results. Schmidt Kunstauktionen Dresden · im Kinsky · Wright
Peter Behrens signature
6 catalogued lots by Peter Behrens record a signature line. Most often: monogrammed.
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About Peter Behrens
Peter Behrens was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, designing objects, typefaces, and important buildings in a range of styles from the 1900s to the 1930s. He was a founding member of the German Werkbund in 1907, when he also began designing for AEG, pioneered corporate design, graphic design, producing typefaces, objects, and buildings for the company. In the next few years, he became a successful architect, a leader of the rationalist / classical German Reform Movement of the 1910s. After the First World War, he turned to Brick Expressionism, designing the remarkable Hoechst Administration Building outside Frankfurt, and from the mid-1920s increasingly to New Objectivity. He was also an educator, heading the architecture school at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1922 to 1936. As a well known architect he produced design across Germany, in other European countries, Russia and England. Several of the leading names of European modernism worked for him when they were starting out in the 1910s, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius.
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In museum collections
Wikimedia Commons · Public domainThe Kiss, 1898
National Museum in Warsaw · Public domain
