# Alfred Hofkunst artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/alfred-hofkunst/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:07:48.956Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Austrian, Swiss
- Common media: Painting, Graphic art, Stage design

## About Alfred Hofkunst

Alfred Hofkunst (1942–2004) was an Austrian-Swiss painter, graphic artist, and stage designer. Public authority records consistently identify him as a painter, while a German-language biographical reference also records his work in graphic art and stage design. His identity is established across major cataloguing systems, including Wikidata, VIAF, Getty’s Union List of Artist Names, and the Library of Congress authority service. These linked records help distinguish Hofkunst from similarly named artists and connect references found in museum, library, and auction catalogues. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with paintings or works of graphic art, although the collected evidence does not establish a particular movement, recurring subject, named series, or preferred print process. Those details should therefore be determined from the individual work, its inscriptions, accompanying documentation, and relevant catalogue or sale records rather than inferred from the artist’s name alone.

## Common works and media

Public references identify Hofkunst primarily as a painter and also associate him with graphic art and stage design. Paintings and graphic works are therefore the most defensible broad work types for cataloguing, but the source pack does not establish common subjects, specific printmaking processes, edition sizes, named series, or characteristic materials. Each object should be described from direct visual and documentary evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work associated with Alfred Hofkunst should begin by confirming that its attribution matches the artist represented in established authority records. Appraisily’s artist page aggregates public auction information under this identity, but the present source pack does not contain enough lot-level evidence to define reliable price ranges or market trends. When suitable records are available, comparisons should account for the kind of work offered and the sale date, realized price, auction-house description, and degree of attribution recorded for each comparable lot. The available identity sources support painting and graphic art as relevant fields, but they do not establish recurring subjects, edition formats, or specific techniques that can be generalized across his market.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identities with public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Gaps in the collected evidence are retained rather than replaced with unsupported assumptions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16054281
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/74126960/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500004532
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hofkunst
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/alfred-hofkunst/