# Christian Daniel Rauch artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:54:52.739Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Movements: Neoclassicism
- Common media: Sculpture

## Portrait

![Christian Daniel Rauch](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Chrisitan_Daniel_Rauch.jpg/1280px-Chrisitan_Daniel_Rauch.jpg)
Franz Hanfstaengl · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chrisitan_Daniel_Rauch.jpg

## About Christian Daniel Rauch

Christian Daniel Rauch (1777–1857) was a German sculptor associated with Neoclassicism and the development of the Berlin school of sculpture. Collected biographical sources credit him with founding that school and place him among the important German sculptors of the nineteenth century. Rauch’s documented projects center on funerary and public commemorative sculpture. They include the tomb monument for Queen Louise of Prussia and monuments honoring Frederick the Great, Albrecht Dürer, Friedrich Wilhelm von Bülow, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, and Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria. These commissions connect his work with royal, military, and civic remembrance in nineteenth-century Germany. Collectors may therefore encounter Rauch’s name in connection with sculptural objects related to portraiture, memorials, or documented monuments. Precise identification still requires evidence about the individual object, since the collected sources do not establish whether a particular example is a lifetime work, later production, copy, or attribution.

## Common works and media

Public sources consistently identify Rauch as a sculptor. The collected record particularly emphasizes tomb memorials and public monuments commemorating royal, military, and cultural figures. An appraisal may also involve an object said to relate to one of these documented projects, but the source pack does not establish common materials, edition practices, workshop versions, or the frequency of particular portable formats in the auction market.

## Market and appraisal context

The supplied source pack establishes Rauch’s identity and historical context but provides only a public Appraisily auction-record page, not detailed lot-level evidence. Appraisal should therefore avoid broad price conclusions. When comparable records are available, the comparison set should remain within the documented object type and subject and should preserve the auction house’s attribution wording. Sale date, realized price, and lot context can then be reviewed together. Any conclusion about material, casting date, edition, workshop participation, provenance, or condition must be supported by the object and its documentation rather than inferred from Rauch’s historical reputation.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q714972
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG43144
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500028803
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82059477
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/rauch-christian-daniel-17771857
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Daniel_Rauch
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Daniel_Rauch
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Daniel_Rauch
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/christian-daniel-rauch/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chrisitan_Daniel_Rauch.jpg