# Adolf Kaufmann artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Death date: 1916-12-02
- Nationality: Austrian
- Movements: 19th-century European landscape and marine painting
- Common media: oil on canvas

## About Adolf Kaufmann

Adolf Kaufmann (1848–1916) was an Austrian landscape and marine painter who spent significant periods working in France and the Netherlands. Born in Opava (then Troppau, now Czechia), he trained in Paris under the French animalier and landscape painter Emile van Marcke de Lummen, whose influence shaped Kaufmann's attention to atmospheric coastal and rural scenes. Kaufmann was active in the Dutch towns of Dordrecht and Katwijk between roughly 1900 and 1910, producing oils of harbors, canals, and North Sea weather that found a ready market among Central European collectors. He also signed work under the pseudonym A. Guyot. He died in Vienna in December 1916. With over 350 documented images in the RKD alone, Kaufmann's output was considerable, and his paintings appear regularly at auction across Europe.

## Common works and media

Kaufmann primarily painted oil-on-canvas seascapes, harbor scenes, and coastal landscapes. Known titles include works such as 'Autumn Morning,' 'Boats in a Gracht' (Boote in einer Gracht), 'Steamship and Fishermen on the High Sea' (Dampfschiff und Fischer auf hoher See), and 'Evening Approaching' (Es will Abend werden). Collectors most frequently encounter signed oils depicting Dutch waterways, North Sea weather, and quiet rural interiors. No editioned prints or sculptures are documented in the available sources.

## Market and appraisal context

Kaufmann's works are most often encountered as oil-on-canvas marine scenes, Dutch canal and harbor views, and coastal landscapes. Attribution can be complicated by his use of the pseudonym A. Guyot, under which paintings may be catalogued in separate auction records. Factors that affect appraisal include subject matter (harbor and canal scenes tend to be the most sought-after), canvas size, condition, provenance clarity, and whether the work dates from his productive Netherlands period around 1900–1910. Public auction records from major European houses provide comparable sale data for collectors and appraisers.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine identity research from library authority files and museum databases with auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Adolf Kaufmann, identity data is sourced from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362901
- RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/43641
- VIAF (Virtual International Authority File): https://viaf.org/viaf/84930403/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500093101
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Kaufmann