# Alfred Kowalski artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/alfred-kowalski/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:06:56.758Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1849-10-11
- Death date: 1915-02-16
- Nationality: Polish
- Movements: Munich School
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Alfred Kowalski](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Alfred_Wierusz_Kowalski_cropped.jpg/1280px-Alfred_Wierusz_Kowalski_cropped.jpg)
Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Wierusz_Kowalski_cropped.jpg

## About Alfred Kowalski

Alfred Kowalski (1849–1915), also identified as Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski and Alfred von Wierusz-Kowalski, was a Polish painter associated with the Munich School. The collected biographical sources give his full name as Alfred Jan Maksymilian Kowalski and describe him as a painter of genre scenes. These identifiers matter because auction records and catalogues may file works under different forms of his name. Appraisily's collected page data links 271 auction records to this artist at the time of research, which helps explain why collectors may encounter his work in sale archives and appraisal requests. The present source pack supports painting, genre scenes, and the Munich School as the clearest art-historical context. It does not provide museum-level detail for narrower recurring motifs, specific periods, or a documented catalogue of works, so those points should be verified against stronger object-level or scholarly evidence before being used for attribution.

## Common works and media

The source pack most securely supports paintings, particularly genre-scene paintings, as works associated with Alfred Kowalski in auction and appraisal contexts. It does not provide adequate authoritative evidence to define recurring motifs, specific periods, editions, prints, drawings, sculptures, or other work types, so those classifications should be made only from object-level documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

Market analysis should begin by confirming that a work is consistently attributable to Alfred Kowalski across his documented name variants. Its medium and subject can then be compared with the sourced description of his practice as a painter of genre scenes and with relevant public auction lots. Appraisily's collection indicates 271 associated records, but the source pack does not expose enough lot-level evidence to establish price trends or scarcity. It also supplies no individual evidence for condition, provenance, dimensions, date, or signature. Those characteristics should therefore be examined on the object and compared with genuinely similar sales rather than inferred from the artist's biography or the aggregate record count.

## 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. Source limitations and unresolved attribution questions are retained rather than converted into unsupported conclusions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q358110
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500026808
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Kowalski
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_von_Wierusz-Kowalski
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Kowalski
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/alfred-kowalski/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Wierusz_Kowalski_cropped.jpg