# Adolf Richard Fleischmann artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/adolf-richard-fleischmann/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:49:18.908Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Common media: Painting

## About Adolf Richard Fleischmann

Adolf Richard Fleischmann (1892–1968) is identified across Wikidata and VIAF as a German painter, with authority records also using Adolf Fleischmann and Adolf-Richard Fleischmann. The collected English- and German-language biographical summaries characterize him as an abstract painter whose later work approached Constructivism and who has been discussed as a precursor of Op Art. Because those movement descriptions in this source pack come from secondary encyclopedia pages rather than a fetched museum or estate biography, they are best treated as contextual leads, not definitive cataloguing labels. Collectors may encounter works under shortened or hyphenated name forms, so matching an object to the correct authority record is important. Appraisily’s artist page aggregates a substantial set of auction records, while the present public source pack mainly establishes identity and broad artistic context rather than a complete career chronology.

## Common works and media

The collected sources support identifying Fleischmann as a painter, and secondary summaries characterize his work as abstract. They do not establish which supports, techniques, print editions, subjects, series, or other object types most often appear at auction. Paintings are therefore the only work type safely highlighted from this source pack; any more specific classification should be checked against the individual object and its auction documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

This source pack supports identity matching and the existence of Appraisily auction records, but it does not provide lot-level descriptions, realized prices, category breakdowns, or an artist-specific price history. A defensible appraisal should therefore begin by confirming that an object belongs to this artist rather than relying on a name alone, especially because authority files carry several name forms and one death-year discrepancy. Appraisily records may then be reviewed for genuinely comparable public sales where supporting lot data are available. The aggregate record count should not be treated as a price trend, liquidity measure, or prediction of value.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q177693
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/32796057/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500002285
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Fleischmann
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Fleischmann
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/adolf-richard-fleischmann/
