# Christian Megert artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/christian-megert/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:21:18.539Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1936-01-06
- Nationality: Swiss
- Movements: Kinetic art
- Common media: Sculpture, Object-based art

## Portrait

![Christian Megert](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/2024-03-10_019_KN_Galerie_Geiger_-_Vernissage_-_Christian_Megert_im_Gespraech.jpg/1280px-2024-03-10_019_KN_Galerie_Geiger_-_Vernissage_-_Christian_Megert_im_Gespraech.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2024-03-10_019_KN_Galerie_Geiger_-_Vernissage_-_Christian_Megert_im_Gespraech.jpg

## About Christian Megert

Christian Megert, born on 6 January 1936 in Bern, is a Swiss sculptor associated with object-based and kinetic art. The collected biographical sources describe an artist who lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. His public identity is consistently linked to sculpture, while the German biographical record also identifies object and kinetic practices. These classifications explain why collectors may encounter his name attached to freestanding sculptures, constructed objects, or works whose visual effect depends on movement or changing viewpoints. Stable records at Wikidata and several international authority services help distinguish him from similarly named people and support reliable entity matching. The available source pack is limited, however: it does not document particular materials, recurring subjects, named series, group memberships, or a detailed exhibition history. Those aspects should therefore be established from documentation accompanying an individual work rather than inferred from this concise identity profile.

## Common works and media

The source pack supports sculpture, object-based art, and kinetic art as the principal work types associated with Christian Megert. It does not establish specific materials, named series, recurring subjects, editions, prints, paintings, drawings, ceramics, or posters, so those classifications should not be assigned without evidence from the individual work or a stronger catalogue source.

## Market and appraisal context

Christian Megert's collected market context should be approached by first identifying the kind of work being assessed: sculpture, an object-based construction, or a kinetic work. Appraisily's input indicates a meaningful set of associated auction records, but the public artist page was rate-limited during collection and no individual lots or major-auction-house essays were available for review. A defensible comparison should therefore use only records that can be matched to the work's documented form and description, with sale date and realized price considered when those details are available. The present evidence does not support claims about price direction, rare series, preferred materials, edition structures, or subject-based premiums.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1081071
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Megert
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Megert
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500081886
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/15580934/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80164019
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/119471701
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000114682215
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/147773091
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/54868