# Charles Clos Olsommer artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:47:01.387Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1883-03-17
- Death date: 1966-06-03
- Nationality: Swiss
- Movements: Symbolism, Mystical art
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Book illustration

## About Charles Clos Olsommer

Charles-Clos Olsommer (1883–1966), also identified as Charles Léon Olsommer, was a Swiss painter and draughtsman born in Neuchâtel and associated later with Sierre. Authority records describe him as a religious artist, portraitist, and landscape painter whose work has Symbolist and mystical dimensions. These classifications place his art within a figurative tradition concerned with spiritual imagery, human likeness, and landscape rather than a single narrowly defined genre. Olsommer also worked as an illustrator, and bibliographic records connect his drawings with published texts and exhibition literature. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on paintings, drawings, works on paper, or illustrated material. Because his name appears in several forms—including Charles-Clos Olsommer, Charles Clos Olsommer, and Charles Léon Olsommer—authority identifiers and biographical details are useful when distinguishing correctly attributed works from records with incomplete cataloguing.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Olsommer include paintings and drawings, particularly religious compositions, portraits, and landscapes. Bibliographic authority data also records him as an illustrator, so signed or attributed drawings connected with books and other published material may appear in appraisal contexts. The collected sources do not establish a catalogue of editions, named series, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or printmaking; such classifications should not be assigned without object-specific evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Olsommer should begin by confirming the artist's identity and the object's medium. Public authority records support paintings, drawings, illustrations, religious subjects, portraits, and landscapes as relevant categories, but the collected sources do not provide detailed auction results. Comparable analysis should therefore separate paintings from works on paper and compare objects with similar subjects, dates, dimensions, and techniques whenever documented sales are available. Signature form, provenance, condition, and attribution status should be investigated from the object and its records rather than inferred from the artist's name alone. This source pack does not support a price forecast or a claim about market direction.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/233311017
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/35536842/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2957986
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500065092
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Clos_Olsommer
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-clos-olsommer/