Bernhard Schultze Auction Prices and Value Guide

Bernhard Schultze auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 965 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Bernhard Schultze auction prices: quick answer

Bernhard Schultze auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Bernhard Schultze
Source records
965
Market update
2026-02-16

Bernhard Schultze market snapshot

Bernhard Schultze shows solid auction liquidity with 99 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $7,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 16 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-04.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (13.5% · 7 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (48.1% · 25 sales)
  • $10,000+ (38.5% · 20 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$12,000
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
16
Median shift vs prior year
+9.1%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-04

Artist context

About Bernhard Schultze

Bernhard Schultze portrait
Gerdschwenke · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Born

1915

Died

2005

Nationality

German

Also known as

Bernard Schultze

Bernhard Schultze is the page name used here; authority and encyclopedia records more commonly identify the artist as Bernard Schultze. Born in 1915 in Schneidemühl, now Piła, and deceased in Cologne in 2005, he was a German abstract painter associated with Art Informel. The collected English-language biography also identifies him as a co-founder of the Quadriga group with Karl Otto Götz and two other artists, placing his practice within postwar German abstraction. In 1955 he married fellow painter Ursula Bluhm. Collectors may encounter his name in museum, library, catalogue, and auction records under either first-name spelling, so the variant is important when matching works and comparable sales. Available evidence supports his identity, dates, nationality, painting practice, Informel association, and Quadriga connection. It does not, however, establish a detailed chronology of his stylistic development, subjects, named bodies of work, or complete range of media.

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Common works and media

The defensible common work type in this source pack is painting, particularly abstract painting associated with Art Informel. The available sources do not provide enough evidence to characterize recurring subjects, named series, sculptures, drawings, prints, editions, posters, ceramics, or mixed-media objects as common parts of Schultze's auction market. Objects outside painting should therefore be matched to stronger medium-specific documentation before being presented as characteristic works.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that a work and its documentation refer to the same artist represented under the Bernhard and Bernard name variants. Appraisily indexes auction material for this artist, but the collected research pack contains no individual lot descriptions or realized-price evidence. It therefore cannot support a price trend or a claim that any particular characteristic commands a premium. A defensible valuation would require comparison with relevant public auction records and examination of the specific work's attribution, medium, date, dimensions, condition, provenance, and any edition information. Those object-level details should be assessed against genuinely comparable lots rather than inferred from the artist's general biography or record count.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Abstract paintings

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected pack contains no individual lot descriptions, condition reports, dimensions, provenance histories, edition information, sale dates, or realized prices from which artist-specific valuation effects could be established.
  • Detailed auction categories and price behavior should remain uncharacterized until the indexed records are examined at lot level.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

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Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Bernhard Schultze

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Bernhard Schultze worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

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