# Arthur Kampf artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/arthur-kampf/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:24:52.033Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1864-09-28
- Death date: 1950-02-08
- Nationality: German
- Movements: Düsseldorf school of painting
- Common media: Painting, Engraving and published prints

## Portrait

![Arthur Kampf](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Arthur_Kampf_%28BLeben_1902-06%29.jpg)
Unbekannter Fotograf der Epoche. · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur_Kampf_(BLeben_1902-06).jpg

## About Arthur Kampf

Arthur Kampf (1864–1950) was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Authority files describe him as a painter and history painter, while biographical records also identify genre painting, portraiture, engraving, and teaching roles in Düsseldorf and Berlin. IdRef links Kampf with published prints on biblical subjects, illustrating why his name can appear on both original paintings and graphic works. Collectors may therefore encounter portraits, genre scenes, historical or religious compositions, and prints rather than one uniform class of objects. His career spanned the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but the collected sources do not provide a museum chronology or catalogue raisonné; individual works should not be dated or attributed from style alone. On Appraisily, stable authority identifiers help group auction records under the correct artist while preserving important distinctions between media and subject categories.

## Common works and media

Documented work types include paintings, engravings, and published prints. His painting practice is associated with historical subjects, genre scenes, and portraits, while bibliographic records link him to printed depictions of Moses and the Entry of Christ into Jerusalem. Auction and appraisal records may consequently cover materially different objects, and a print should be classified separately from an original painting before comparable sales are selected.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by distinguishing an original painting from an engraving or other published print, then identifying whether the subject is historical, religious, genre-based, or a portrait. Those distinctions correspond to Kampf's documented fields of work. The public Appraisily page provides an auction-record signal, so useful comparisons should be filtered to the same medium and work type, then reviewed by sale date and available lot details. The collected source pack does not include major-auction-house results or object-specific evidence about condition, provenance, attribution, or edition size. It therefore supports neither a price prediction nor a market-trend claim; a valuation requires examination of the object and appropriately matched public sales.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research and stable authority records with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318554
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/47034776/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/151868832
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500030180
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Kampf
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Kampf
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Kampf
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/arthur-kampf/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur_Kampf_(BLeben_1902-06).jpg