# Adolphe Feder artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/adolphe-feder/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:21:31.517Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1886-07-16
- Death date: 1943-12-13
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Fauvism
- Common media: Painting, Illustration

## About Adolphe Feder

Adolphe Feder, also identified as Aizik Feder and Adolphe Féder, was an Odessa-born painter and illustrator associated with France. Born in 1886, he moved to France in 1908 and remained there until his wartime deportation. Reference sources describe his identity in different ways, including French, Ukrainian, and Jewish-Ukrainian, reflecting both his birthplace and his later career in France. A German reference associates him with Fauvism, although that classification needs stronger scholarly confirmation. Feder's biography is inseparable from the Holocaust: he was interned at Drancy and died at Auschwitz in 1943. He is especially remembered for artwork depicting other people held with him at Drancy. Collectors may encounter his work under several versions of his name, making careful entity matching important when reviewing catalogues, inscriptions, archival references, and auction records.

## Common works and media

Feder is documented as a painter and illustrator. The source pack also identifies artwork depicting fellow internees at Drancy as an important part of his surviving legacy. Auction and appraisal searches should therefore check paintings and illustrations while accounting for all established name variants. The pack does not support a more specific inventory of techniques, formats, editions, or recurring subjects.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Feder should begin by reconciling the artist's name variants, since records may use Adolphe Feder, Adolphe Féder, or Aizik Feder. The available sources identify painting and illustration as relevant work types, while artwork connected to his Drancy internment has particular historical context. Medium, subject, date, documentary history, attribution, physical condition, and provenance should be examined directly for any submitted object. The collected source pack does not provide usable individual auction lots or realized-price examples, so no price trend or value range can be responsibly inferred here. Comparable public sales should be matched by work type, period, subject, dimensions, condition, and strength of attribution when records are available.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2828830
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_F%C3%A9der
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aizik_Feder
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Feder