Joseph Wopfner Auction Prices and Value Guide

Joseph Wopfner auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 193 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Joseph Wopfner auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Joseph Wopfner
Source records
193
Market update
2026-02-16

Joseph Wopfner market snapshot

Joseph Wopfner shows solid auction liquidity with 50 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,800. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-06-21.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (10.0% · 3 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (66.7% · 20 sales)
  • $10,000+ (23.3% · 7 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$130
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
3
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-06-21

Artist context

About Joseph Wopfner

Joseph Wopfner portrait
Ludwig von Zumbusch · Public domain · Source

Born

1843

Died

1927

Nationality

Austrian

Also known as

Josef Wopfner

Joseph Wopfner (1843–1927), also catalogued as Josef Wopfner, was an Austrian painter best known through the surviving public record as a landscape specialist. A collected German-language biography associates him with the Munich School and notes his recurring use of motifs from the Chiemgau region, which led to his description as a Chiemsee painter. That regional focus is the clearest documented context for understanding why collectors encounter his name on lake and countryside scenes. Authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty ULAN help distinguish him from similarly named artists and connect the Joseph and Josef forms of his name. In auction and appraisal settings, his works are therefore most plausibly encountered as paintings centered on landscape and Chiemgau or Chiemsee subject matter. The available source pack is stronger on identity than on training, exhibitions, chronology, or individual titled works, so those details require confirmation from museum catalogues or scholarly records.

PaintingLandscapesChiemgau and Chiemsee motifs

Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter paintings, particularly landscapes and scenes using Chiemgau or Chiemsee motifs. The source pack does not establish a documented practice in prints, sculpture, ceramics, or editions, so objects in those categories should not be attributed to Wopfner without stronger catalogue and object-specific evidence.

Market and appraisal context

For appraisal, the strongest available comparison starts with confirmed attribution to Joseph or Josef Wopfner and with the work's relationship to his documented landscape practice, especially Chiemgau or Chiemsee imagery. Medium, dimensions, condition, provenance, date, inscriptions, and framing can materially affect comparisons, but the collected source pack does not document how those variables affected this artist's results. Appraisily maintains an auction-price page for Wopfner, and the harness reports 193 associated records, but record count alone does not establish authenticity, quality, market direction, or value. Comparable lots should be filtered by work type, subject, size, date, attribution strength, condition, sale date, and auction venue before any valuation conclusion is drawn.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Landscape paintings
  • Chiemgau and Chiemsee scenes

Value drivers

  1. Verified attribution across the Joseph Wopfner and Josef Wopfner name variants
  2. Relationship of the subject to his documented Chiemgau and Chiemsee landscape focus
  3. Comparable public auction records matched by work type and sale date

Appraisal caveats

  • The source pack does not contain lot-level descriptions, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, attribution notes, estimates, or realized prices.
  • The harness reports 193 associated auction records, but that count alone does not establish authenticity, market direction, or the value of an individual work.
  • Object-specific appraisal should verify medium, dimensions, condition, provenance, date, inscriptions, attribution strength, and genuinely comparable sales.

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 Joseph Wopfner

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Joseph Wopfner 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 Joseph Wopfner artwork?

Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.