# Melchior Lechter - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T23:57:16.673Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 28
- Lots with prices: 21
- First auction date: 2009-12-16
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-22
- Median realised price: $900
- Price range: $40 to $105,000

## Market Takeaway
Melchior Lechter has 28 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $900. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($900\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($300 to $1,560\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 57.1% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 38.1% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 4.8% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 9
- Recent 12 months median: $1,100
- Previous 12 months median: $1,000
- Median shift: 10%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-22
- Days since latest sale: 158
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christian Hesse Auktionen: 15 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 3 lots
- Winterberg\-Kunst: 3 lots
- Auktionshaus Mehlis GmbH: 2 lots
- Antikauktion Krefeld: 1 lots
- Hauswedell\-Nolte: 1 lots
- Koller Auctions: 1 lots
- Van Ham Kunstauktionen: 1 lots
- Wilson55: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-22 | Melchior Lechter \- Shakespeare in deutscher Sprache. | Christian Hesse Auktionen | €1,100
2. 2025-05-31 | Melchior Lechter \- Stefan George. Hymnen · Pilgerfahrten · Algabal. | Christian Hesse Auktionen | N/A
3. 2025-02-20 | MELCHIOR LECHTER \(1865\-1937\). GROSSE BERLINER KUNSTAUSSTELLUNG. 1897. 25½x18 inches, 65x45¾ cm. Otto v. Holten, Berlin. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,250
4. 2024-11-23 | Melchior Lechter \- Stefan George. Hymnen · Pilgerfahrten · Algabal. | Christian Hesse Auktionen | N/A
5. 2024-11-23 | Melchior Lechter \- Deutsche Dichtung. | Christian Hesse Auktionen | €2,200
6. 2024-11-23 | Melchior Lechter \- Lothar Treuge. Huldigungen. | Christian Hesse Auktionen | €170
7. 2024-11-23 | Melchior Lechter \- Friedrich Wolters. Herrschaft und Dienst. | Christian Hesse Auktionen | N/A
8. 2024-11-23 | Melchior Lechter \- Thomas von Kempen. Die vier Buecher von der Nachfolge Christi. | Christian Hesse Auktionen | €650
9. 2024-10-19 | MELCHIOR LECHTER : Sommerliche Landschaft im Spessart. | Winterberg\-Kunst | €1,000
10. 2024-10-19 | MELCHIOR LECHTER : Landschaft am Genfer See. | Winterberg\-Kunst | €2,200
11. 2024-09-07 | Melchior LECHTER \(1865\-1937\) Portrait of a young lady 1887, | Antikauktion Krefeld | €900
12. 2024-02-29 | MELCHIOR LECHTER \(1865\-1937\). GROSSE BERLINER KUNSTAUSSTELLUNG. 1897. 28x18¾ inches, 71x46½ cm. Otto v. Holten, Berlin. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,375 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-melchior-lechter-1865-1937-grosse-berliner-kunstausstellung-1897-28x183-4-inches-71x461-2-cm-otto-v-holten-berlin-201-c-8b04622ba3
13. 2024-01-31 | Melchior Lechter: Haus im Süden | Van Ham Kunstauktionen | €300
14. 2022-11-27 | Melchior Lechter \- Friedrich Wolters. Herrschaft und Dienst. | Christian Hesse Auktionen | €900
15. 2022-11-27 | Melchior Lechter \- Shakespeare in deutscher Sprache. | Christian Hesse Auktionen | €300
16. 2022-11-27 | Melchior Lechter \- Thomas von Kempen. Die vier Bücher von der Nachfolge Christi. | Christian Hesse Auktionen | €280
17. 2022-02-26 | Melchior Lechter, Exlibris | Auktionshaus Mehlis GmbH | €40
18. 2022-01-29 | Melchior Lechter \- Thomas von Kempen. Die vier Bücher von der Nachfolge Christi. | Christian Hesse Auktionen | N/A
19. 2022-01-29 | Melchior Lechter \- Friedrich Wolters. Herrschaft und Dienst. | Christian Hesse Auktionen | N/A
20. 2022-01-29 | Melchior Lechter \- Stefan George. Der siebente Ring. | Christian Hesse Auktionen | €170
21. 2021-11-20 | Melchior Lechter, Exlibris | Auktionshaus Mehlis GmbH | N/A
22. 2021-01-16 | Melchior Lechter \- Stéphane Mallarmé. Herodias. | Christian Hesse Auktionen | €9,000
23. 2021-01-16 | Melchior Lechter \- Maurice Maeterlinck. Der Schatz der Armen. | Christian Hesse Auktionen | €220
24. 2020-07-09 | Melchior Lechter \(German, 1865\-1937\) Spring in Oberbergen, Switzerland | Wilson55 | £300

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