# Albert Urban artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/albert-urban/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:54:48.119Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Common media: Painting

## About Albert Urban

Albert Urban (1909–1959) is identified in the collected authority data as a German painter. His identity is connected to stable records at Getty ULAN, VIAF, MoMA, RKD, and the National Gallery of Art, helping distinguish him from people or places that share the same name. The available source excerpts do not establish a particular movement, school, preferred technique, subject range, or named series, so those details should not be inferred. On the evidence currently available, paintings are the only defensible common work category. For entity matching, the strongest signals are Urban’s name, life years, German nationality, occupation as a painter, and identifiers maintained by several cultural institutions. Further museum, archival, or catalogue research is needed before adding a fuller account of his training, exhibitions, career, or stylistic development.

## Common works and media

The source pack identifies Albert Urban as a painter, so paintings are the only common work type that can presently be stated with reasonable confidence. It supplies no reliable evidence for particular painting techniques, prints, drawings, sculptures, editions, recurring subjects, or named series. Auction catalogue descriptions should be reviewed before assigning a more specific category to an individual work.

## Market and appraisal context

The current source pack supports identity matching and indicates that Appraisily has auction records associated with Albert Urban, but the collected excerpt does not expose individual lot descriptions or results. An appraisal should therefore first confirm that a work is associated with the same German painter identified by the authority records. Comparable lots should be evaluated only when their catalogue attribution and sale data are available; this profile does not support a price forecast or a claim about market direction. More detailed conclusions require review of the underlying auction entries, including sale dates and realized prices, rather than reliance on the artist’s name alone.

## 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. For Albert Urban, the present identity evidence is stronger than the retrieved biographical and lot-level detail.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21095023
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500469424
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/4654159820913814000004/
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/6036
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/233098
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.3244.html
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/albert-urban/