# Arthur Kolnik artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:48:23.662Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Polish
- Common media: Painting, Illustration, Expressionist woodcut

## About Arthur Kolnik

Arthur Kolnik was a Polish painter and illustrator born in 1890. Collected biographical material connects his work with Galician Jewish culture and describes paintings and expressionist woodcuts depicting people and scenes from Eastern European Jewish life, especially the world of the shtetl. This combination of painting, illustration, and relief printmaking helps explain why collectors may encounter his name on both unique works and works on paper. Stable authority records are available through Wikidata, VIAF, IdRef, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the Library of Congress. Those records establish a strong identity trail but disagree about his death year: 1971 and 1972 both appear in the collected sources. Appraisily therefore treats names, medium, inscriptions, provenance, and attribution as important evidence when matching an object or auction record to Kolnik.

## Common works and media

The collected biographical sources identify Kolnik primarily with paintings, illustrations, and expressionist woodcuts. Subjects described in those sources include figures and scenes connected with Eastern European Jewish life and the shtetl. Auction records may also be classified under works on paper and prints, editions, mixed media, sculpture, or decorative art. Because these categories are broad, each object should be checked directly for its technique, support, dimensions, signature, inscriptions, edition status, and condition before it is compared with other sales.

## Market and appraisal context

Arthur Kolnik's public auction record spans paintings, works on paper and prints, and smaller numbers of objects assigned to broader categories such as sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions. A useful appraisal comparison should match the object as closely as possible by medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, signature or inscriptions, and attribution status. Provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, restoration, and edition information may also affect comparability. Public results provide market evidence, but they do not capture every private transaction and may report premiums or fees differently. A final value conclusion should therefore use several genuinely comparable lots rather than treating an overall artist median as a prediction.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Private sales, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may not be represented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186483
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/44419202/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/060569743
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12616620d
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96019215
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Kolnik
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Kolnik
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/arthur-kolnik/