# Bernd Zimmer artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/bernd-zimmer/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:35:39.137Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1948-11-06
- Nationality: German
- Movements: Neue Wilde
- Common media: Painting

## About Bernd Zimmer

Bernd Zimmer is a German painter born in 1948. Public identity records and the collected biographical sources associate him with the Neue Wilde, the German context commonly linked to renewed expressive and figurative painting. Collectors may encounter Zimmer through paintings offered under his name, but the available source pack provides only a compact account of his career. It does not document particular subjects, named bodies of work, exhibition history, or a detailed chronology, so those aspects should not be inferred from this profile alone. Stable identifiers from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, the German National Library, ISNI, IdRef, RKD, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France help distinguish this artist from other people with the same name. These identifiers are especially useful when comparing catalogue entries, auction records, and bibliographic references.

## Common works and media

The available identity sources consistently describe Bernd Zimmer as a painter, making paintings the only work type that can be stated with confidence from this source pack. The collected material does not reliably establish recurring subjects, specific supports or techniques, print editions, sculpture, drawings, named series, or other categories. Any work presented for appraisal should therefore be classified from its physical characteristics, inscriptions, documentation, and relevant catalogue or auction evidence rather than from unsupported assumptions about the artist’s usual production.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s page associates Bernd Zimmer with a substantial body of auction records, but the collected source pack does not expose the underlying lot-level evidence. A reliable appraisal should therefore identify the individual work before drawing conclusions from comparables. Relevant evidence may include the stated medium, dimensions, date, signature or inscriptions, condition, provenance, and the degree of confidence in attribution, but this pack does not establish how any one factor affects Zimmer’s market. Comparable public sales should be selected only after confirming that the records concern the same Bernd Zimmer and genuinely similar works. No price forecast or market trend is supported here.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. This source pack establishes a basic identity framework but does not include enough lot-level detail for artist-specific market conclusions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q824440
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd_Zimmer
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd_Zimmer
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12238245v
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/bernd-zimmer/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500081944
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/54201652/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84083699
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/118636898
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000078318095