# Christian Friedrich Mali artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/christian-friedrich-mali/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:37:51.697Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking

## Portrait

![Christian Friedrich Mali](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Christian_Mali_by_Anton_Braith.jpg)
Christian Friedrich Mali · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_Mali_by_Anton_Braith.jpg

## About Christian Friedrich Mali

Christian Friedrich Mali (1832–1906), also catalogued as Christian Mali, was a German painter, printmaker, and art professor. Public authority records connect the same artist identity across Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and national-library files, helping distinguish him from similarly named artists. Biographical sources associate his work with the nineteenth-century Munich School context and identify animal, landscape, and genre painting as important parts of his practice. Authority data also records printmaking among his activities. Collectors may therefore encounter signed paintings of rural scenery or animals, narrative genre subjects, and prints or other works on paper bearing variants of his name. His older brother, Johannes Cornelis Jacobus Mali, was also a painter, making careful interpretation of abbreviated signatures and catalogue attributions particularly important. Appraisily treats names, dates, institutional identifiers, and documented work categories as artist-identity evidence, not as authentication of an individual object.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Mali most commonly fall into animal, landscape, and genre-painting categories. His authority record also identifies him as a printmaker, so collectors may encounter prints and other works on paper in addition to paintings. Subject classification and medium should be verified from the object and its documentation rather than inferred from the artist's name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Christian Friedrich Mali appears in auction and appraisal contexts through animal, landscape, and genre paintings, as well as prints or works on paper. A useful comparison should separate paintings from prints and consider whether the subject and catalogue attribution align with the documented artist profile. Public auction records can help identify comparable works when their medium, subject, dimensions, date, and attribution are sufficiently similar. The collected source pack does not provide detailed lot-level condition, provenance, edition, or realized-price evidence, so it does not support a price forecast. Any appraisal should therefore combine verified artist identity with inspection of the specific object and carefully matched public sales.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Directory evidence identifies the artist but does not authenticate or value a specific work.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q449153
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500014809
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/40170617/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83210157
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Mali
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Mali
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/christian-friedrich-mali/