# Andreas Theodorus van der Vossen artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:22:21.145Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: painting, drawing, graphic design, woodcut, book-binding design, postage-stamp design

## About Andreas Theodorus van der Vossen

Andreas Theodorus van der Vossen, commonly identified as André van der Vossen (1893–1963), was a Dutch painter, draftsman, and graphic designer. He began training in Haarlem in 1915, studying design and woodcut technique at the School for Architecture, Decorative Arts and Crafts. His practice crossed fine and applied art, encompassing painting, drawing, book-binding design, and commissioned graphic work. Collected stamp records document his contribution to Dutch postage-stamp design, including 1930 “For the Child” issues and a 1953 summer series centered on flowers. This breadth is important for entity matching: institutional records may use his formal name, while biographical and design sources commonly identify him as André van der Vossen. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on autonomous artworks, works on paper, printed designs, and objects connected with commissioned visual projects. The available sources do not establish a formal movement affiliation, so his work is best situated broadly within twentieth-century Dutch painting and graphic design.

## Common works and media

Documented work types include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, woodcut-related work, and book-binding designs. Public-domain stamp records also identify van der Vossen with Dutch postage-stamp projects, including child and seasonal imagery from 1930 and flower designs from 1953. Authorship should be checked project by project because some printed material may credit him for only a specific element, such as lettering, rather than the complete design.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first distinguish an original painting or drawing from a woodcut-related work, book design, postage-stamp design, or later printed artifact. Documented project credit is particularly important: one collected 1952 stamp record credits another artist with the principal design while identifying van der Vossen's contribution as lettering and numerals. The date, medium, physical format, inscriptions, and relationship to a documented commission can then be compared with relevant public auction lots. The collected source pack confirms that auction records are associated with the artist page but does not expose individual lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, or a category breakdown. It therefore supports careful work identification, but not a price prediction or a claim about market direction.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4370792
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_van_der_Vossen
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500084386
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96289516/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/81972
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG50010
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Postzegel_1930_voor_het_kind_6_cent.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Postzegel_1930_voor_het_kind_1_1-2_cent.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Postzegel_NL_nr582_Mijnwerker.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Postzegel_NL_nr._602-606._Zomerzegels.jpg