# Arthur Waagen artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/arthur-waagen/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:02:42.442Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1836-03-11
- Nationality: German
- Common media: Sculpture

## About Arthur Waagen

Arthur Waagen, also identified as Max Arthur Waagen, was a German sculptor born in Memel in 1836 who died in Paris in 1898. The available authority and biographical records consistently identify sculpture as his profession, although this source pack does not establish a formal movement, school, or detailed chronology of his career. Collectors are most likely to encounter Waagen through sculptural and decorative objects offered at auction. Appraisily's matched records also place his name across several broader auction categories, but those classifications should not be treated as a definitive catalogue of his output. Because the surviving public identity evidence gathered here is limited, individual objects require careful examination of authorship, inscriptions, materials, casting or edition information, and provenance. The name Max Arthur Waagen is useful for entity matching and for locating records that may not appear under the shorter Arthur Waagen form.

## Common works and media

The strongest supported work type is sculpture. Appraisily's auction classifications also include mixed media, decorative art, editions, paintings, works on paper, and prints, although the broader categories are weakly supported as descriptions of Waagen's documented oeuvre. For appraisal purposes, sculptural and decorative objects attributed to Waagen should be assessed individually for material, dimensions, surface, inscriptions, casting or edition evidence, condition, and provenance.

## Market and appraisal context

Arthur Waagen auction results are most useful when compared with objects that share the same medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, and attribution status. For sculpture and decorative objects, casting quality, surface condition, restoration, inscriptions, foundry or edition details, and documented provenance may all affect comparability. Exhibition history and catalogue references can add context when they are securely connected to the object. Public sale results should be normalized where possible because reported prices may differ in their inclusion of buyer premiums and fees. Appraisily's current source page contains differing record totals, so the underlying dataset should be reconciled before any count is presented as definitive. Auction records remain a starting point rather than a substitute for object-specific inspection and authentication.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67132372
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Arthur_Waagen
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/arthur-waagen/