Emil Volkers Auction Prices and Value Guide
Emil Volkers auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 173 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Emil Volkers auction prices: quick answer
Emil Volkers auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Emil Volkers
- Source records
- 173
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Emil Volkers market snapshot
Emil Volkers shows solid auction liquidity with 91 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,800. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 9 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-13.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (13.6% · 9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (84.8% · 56 sales)
- $10,000+ (1.5% · 1 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $1,200
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 9
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-12-13
Artist context
About Emil Volkers
Born
1831
Died
1905
Nationality
German
Also known as
Emil Ferdinand Heinrich Volkers
Emil Volkers (1831–1905) was a German artist documented by international authority records as a painter, draftsman, and lithographer. Biographical sources give his full name as Emil Ferdinand Heinrich Volkers and describe him especially as a painter of horses and genre scenes. His surviving identity record therefore places him within the broader context of nineteenth-century German equestrian and everyday-life imagery, while also indicating activity across paintings, drawings, and lithographic work. Collectors may encounter his shorter professional name, Emil Volkers, as well as the expanded name used in biographical references. Authority links are useful for separating his work from objects by similarly named artists and for joining records held under different name forms. The available public source pack is stronger on identity and artistic roles than on individual works, chronology, exhibitions, or institutional holdings, so object-level conclusions should remain tied to the evidence supplied by each work and its documented history.
PaintingDrawingLithographyHorses and equestrian subjectsGenre scenes
Common works and media
Public authority and biographical records identify Volkers with painting, drawing, and lithography. Horses and equestrian imagery are his clearest documented subject focus, alongside genre scenes. The source pack does not establish particular named series, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, or other work types, so those categories should not be attributed to him without additional evidence.
Market and appraisal context
An appraisal should first match the object to the authority identity for Emil Volkers (1831–1905), then compare like with like. Paintings, drawings, and lithographs should be evaluated within their respective media, while equestrian subjects should be compared with materially similar horse imagery rather than unrelated genre scenes. The collected source pack confirms the existence of an Appraisily auction-price page but does not expose individual lots or realized prices. It therefore does not support a generalized price trend or prediction. A defensible value analysis requires verified lot-level auction records, relevant sale dates, realized prices, and genuinely comparable works when those records are available.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Value drivers
- Confirm that the artist identity and name variant correspond to Emil Volkers (1831–1905).
- Compare works within the same medium, distinguishing paintings from drawings and lithographs.
- Use subject-matched comparisons, particularly for equestrian works and genre scenes.
- Use verified lot-level auction records rather than inferring a price trend from the artist-page record count alone.
Appraisal caveats
- The collected source text does not expose individual auction lots, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, or edition information.
- No accessible major-auction-house biography or lot record was included in the source pack, so common auction categories and price behavior cannot be established reliably.
- The Munich and Düsseldorf school association appears only in a discovery-level Wikipedia excerpt and is therefore omitted from structured movement data.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
- Wikidata library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- VIAF library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Appraisily appraisily artist page
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.
Artist value FAQ
How much is Emil Volkers 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.
Can Appraisily value my Emil Volkers artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.