# Michael Ruetz - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T09:31:40.536Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 19
- Lots with prices: 6
- First auction date: 2007-11-28
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-02
- Median realised price: $800
- Price range: $80 to $3,500

## Market Takeaway
Michael Ruetz has 19 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $800. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 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 \($800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($250 to $1,200\) 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: 50% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 50% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $80
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-02
- Days since latest sale: 239
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Schneider\-Henn: 10 lots
- Historia Auctionata: 4 lots
- Kunsthaus Lempertz KG: 2 lots
- Auktionshaus Mehlis GmbH: 1 lots
- Sotheby's: 1 lots
- Van Ham Kunstauktionen: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-02 | MICHAEL RUETZ \(1940\-2024\), GERM | Historia Auctionata | €80 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-michael-ruetz-1940-2024-germ-8325-c-a0a470c8e9
2. 2025-06-24 | MICHAEL RUETZ \(1940\-2024\), GERMAN | Historia Auctionata | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-michael-ruetz-1940-2024-german-8073-c-0b24d2eb6c
3. 2025-06-24 | MICHAEL RUETZ \(1940\-2024\), GERMAN | Historia Auctionata | €250 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-michael-ruetz-1940-2024-german-8072-c-cb74cee8cc
4. 2025-06-27 | Michael Ruetz 1940\-2024 | Schneider\-Henn | N/A
5. 2024-09-03 | MICHAEL RUETZ \(\*1940\), ''CIMITERO DI S | Historia Auctionata | N/A
6. 2024-06-14 | Michael Ruetz geb. 1940 | Schneider\-Henn | N/A
7. 2024-06-14 | Michael Ruetz geb. 1940 | Schneider\-Henn | N/A
8. 2024-04-12 | Michael Ruetz, geb. 1940 | Schneider\-Henn | €1,200
9. 2024-04-12 | Michael Ruetz, geb. 1940 | Schneider\-Henn | €800
10. 2024-02-27 | Michael Ruetz, geb. 1940 | Schneider\-Henn | N/A
11. 2024-02-02 | Michael Ruetz, geb. 1940 | Schneider\-Henn | N/A
12. 2022-11-29 | Michael Ruetz, geb. 1940 | Schneider\-Henn | N/A
13. 2022-08-27 | Michael Ruetz, attr., Portrait Joseph Beuys | Auktionshaus Mehlis GmbH | N/A
14. 2022-03-23 | Michael Ruetz, geb. 1940 | Schneider\-Henn | N/A
15. 2021-06-10 | Michael Ruetz, geb. 1940 | Schneider\-Henn | N/A
16. 2012-11-29 | MICHAEL RUETZ, Rudi Dutschke and Gaston Salvatore, 27th November 1967, 1967 | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | N/A
17. 2012-05-23 | MICHAEL RUETZ, Aura | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | €1,160
18. 2011-05-10 | MICHAEL RUETZ \(B.1940\) | Sotheby's | €3,500
19. 2007-11-28 | \[ Photographs \] | Van Ham Kunstauktionen | N/A

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