# Albert Speer artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/albert-speer/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:04:18.401Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German

## Portrait

![Albert Speer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146II-277%2C_Albert_Speer.jpg)
Binder (maybe Atelier Binder after Alexander Binders death in 1929) · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146II-277,_Albert_Speer.jpg

## About Albert Speer

Albert Speer (1905–1981) was a German architect and senior official in Nazi Germany. He served as Minister of Armaments and War Production during much of the Second World War and was convicted as a war criminal following the Nuremberg trials. These facts are central to identifying the person represented by this page and should not be separated from the historical context of material attributed to or associated with him. Public authority records consistently connect the name with the architect and government minister, while the collected Appraisily page reports auction records catalogued under the same name. The available source pack does not establish that those records constitute a conventional fine-art market, nor does it identify recurring media, subjects, or series. Each object therefore requires lot-level verification before its authorship, association, category, and relevance as a comparable can be assessed responsibly.

## Common works and media

The source pack documents architecture as Speer’s profession but does not identify the recurring object types represented by the auction records. It provides insufficient evidence to characterize paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, documents, architectural designs, memorabilia, editions, or other categories as common works. Lot-level cataloguing is required before such classifications can be made.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily signal indicates 177 auction records under Albert Speer’s name, but the source pack provides no lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, or category breakdown. It therefore cannot support a price trend, typical medium, or category-specific appraisal conclusion. Before using any record as a comparable, confirm that it concerns the 1905–1981 German architect and official and determine the object’s documented relationship to him. Attribution language and the distinction between an authored item, a signed item, a depiction, and material that is merely associated with the historical figure are essential. No price prediction is warranted from the supplied evidence alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, and relevant comparable lots. For Albert Speer, the present identity evidence is substantially stronger than the supplied lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60045
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500027934
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/17343524/
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/albert-speer/