Ferdinand Gehr Auction Prices and Value Guide

Ferdinand Gehr auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 310 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Ferdinand Gehr auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Ferdinand Gehr
Source records
310
Market update
2026-02-06

Ferdinand Gehr market snapshot

Ferdinand Gehr shows deep auction liquidity with 171 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,400. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 18 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-04.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (36.0% · 40 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (46.8% · 52 sales)
  • $10,000+ (17.1% · 19 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$1,500
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
18
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-04

Artist context

About Ferdinand Gehr

Ferdinand Gehr portrait
Maeder, Herbert, 1930–2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Born

1896

Died

1996

Nationality

Swiss

Ferdinand Gehr (1896–1996) was a Swiss painter, stained-glass artist, and postage stamp designer whose career became closely associated with modern church art. Active from the 1920s, he developed a personal approach to Christian imagery across painting, murals, and stained glass. His religious commissions could provoke strong responses: murals for the Church of Bruderklaus in Oberwil, Zug, were covered following protests. Later exhibition catalogues recorded by IdRef include presentations associated with the Kunstverein St. Gallen and Kunstmuseum venues, indicating continued institutional attention to his work. Collectors may encounter Gehr through autonomous paintings as well as works or designs related to ecclesiastical settings. Because his practice crossed portable fine art, architectural decoration, and graphic design, identification should begin with the object's actual medium and function rather than assuming every work belongs to one category. Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and library-network records provide stable identifiers for matching Gehr across collections and catalogues.

PaintingStained glassMurals and church paintingPostage stamp designChristian subjectsChurch and sacred art

Common works and media

Gehr's documented practice includes paintings, murals, stained glass, and postage stamp design. Church art and Christian subjects are central to the available biographical record. The collected sources do not establish which formats dominate public auctions, so portable paintings or graphic material should not be treated as representative of his entire output without lot-level evidence.

Market and appraisal context

Market assessment for Ferdinand Gehr should begin by separating paintings and other portable works from stained-glass, mural, church-design, or postage-stamp material. The source pack confirms these distinct areas of practice but provides no lot-level descriptions, condition reports, provenance histories, dimensions, edition information, or realized-price comparables. Those omissions prevent a responsible price trend or value conclusion. For an individual object, its attribution, medium, function, and possible relationship to a documented church commission or Christian subject should be tested against physical evidence and available records. Appraisily can add auction-house descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when matching records are available; this research serves chiefly as an identity and work-type framework.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Value drivers

  1. Object classification by medium and function, distinguishing paintings from stained-glass, mural, church-design, and postage-stamp material
  2. A documented relationship to Gehr's church-art practice or Christian subject matter

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no accessible major-auction-house lot descriptions or realized-price results.
  • The available sources do not establish which media or object types appear most frequently at auction.
  • No price trend, scarcity claim, or value range can be supported from this source pack alone.
  • Condition, provenance, dimensions, edition status, signatures, and comparable-sale details require object-level and auction-record research.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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

Source-grounded artist Markdown

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 Ferdinand Gehr

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Ferdinand Gehr 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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