# August Laux artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/august-laux/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:57:07.013Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Oil on canvas

## About August Laux

August Laux was an American artist and painter whose identity is represented in Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and RKDartists. The collected authority material agrees on a death year of 1921 but gives conflicting birth years, 1847 and 1853, so this profile does not state a settled birth date. Available object records associate Laux with painting, particularly an oil-on-canvas still life. Another Wikimedia Commons record describes still-life, trompe-l'œil, and genre subjects, although that record is not a substitute for a museum biography or catalogue raisonné. Collectors may encounter Laux through paintings offered or recorded in auction contexts; the Appraisily input reports 192 associated records. Because the present source pack lacks an accessible institutional biography and detailed auction-house catalog entries, claims about training, exhibitions, commissions, chronology, and artistic movement remain intentionally excluded. The surviving authority identifiers nevertheless provide a useful foundation for distinguishing this artist from similarly named people and for connecting future museum, library, and auction evidence.

## Common works and media

The collected public material points to paintings, particularly oil on canvas, with still-life, trompe-l'œil, and genre subjects. It does not establish a reliable catalog of prints, sculptures, drawings, posters, ceramics, or editioned works, so those formats should not be presented as common without additional evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Available evidence supports only a narrow market description. The input reports 192 Appraisily auction records, while the collected object records document an oil-on-canvas still life and associate Laux with still-life, trompe-l'œil, and genre painting. Those work types can guide an initial search for comparable lots, but they do not establish authenticity or value. The source pack contains no accessible auction-house catalog entries, realized prices, sale dates, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, or detailed attribution language. Any appraisal should therefore compare the submitted object with verified public lot records before drawing conclusions. This profile makes no price forecast or market-trend claim and treats identity matching cautiously because the authority material contains conflicting birth years.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available and can be matched reliably.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26265190
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500096863
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96394854/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/87775
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/august-laux/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Still-life_by_August_Laux,_oil_on_canvas.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PAUSE_ON_THE_PATH.jpg