Dorotheum can look back on an outstanding auction year. Dorotheum's international orientation is crucial to its success. Bidders from over 90 countries competed for the artworks.

Dorotheum recorded spectacular increases in the higher price range over the course of the year. An absolute highlight was the drawing ‘Kauernder Rückenakt’ (Crouching Nude) by Egon Schiele from 1917, the artist's penultimate year of creativity, which changed hands for €3.23 million. Hammers falling for works by important representatives of classical modernism such as Giorgio de Chirico, Marc Chagall and Alfons Walde made this the auction house's most successful category. At the top of the contemporary art list was the work ‘Two Inquisitors II’ by Czech artist Mikuláš Medek, which fetched an outstanding €812,500. In the Old Masters section, a portrait by Spanish artist Francisco de Goya achieved a sensational result of €520,000. In the 19th-century paintings section, the painting ‘Hansl's First Outing’ by Austrian painter Georg Ferdinand Waldmüller attracted attention with a top price of €520,000.