# Dirk Skreber artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/dirk-skreber/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:36:03.749Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Movements: Contemporary art
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture, Installation

## About Dirk Skreber

Dirk Skreber is a German contemporary artist born in 1961. Public biographical sources place him in New York City, where he lives and works. A Dutch-language biography reports that he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1982 to 1988, including study with Alfonso Hüppi, and describes a practice spanning painting, sculpture, and installation. It also identifies Skreber as the first recipient of the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst in 2000. Collectors may therefore encounter his name across several work types rather than in connection with a single medium. The present evidence is uneven: authority data supports his basic identity, birth year, and German nationality, while the available details about his training and award come only from Wikipedia and need institutional corroboration. Any appraisal should begin by confirming that the object is correctly attributed to this Dirk Skreber and by identifying its medium and date.

## Common works and media

The available biography describes Skreber as working in painting, sculpture, and installation. The source pack does not establish recurring subjects, named series, print editions, drawings, ceramics, posters, or the relative frequency with which any work type appears at auction, so those details should not be inferred from this profile.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected input associates Dirk Skreber with 172 records, but this source pack provides no readable lot-level results or major-auction-house analysis. No price direction or hierarchy among his work types is therefore asserted. The documented range of painting, sculpture, and installation makes accurate medium and object classification an important starting point. A market comparison should use genuinely comparable public sales when records are available, with sale dates and realized prices interpreted in their specific lot context. Edition information, recurring series, subject premiums, condition effects, provenance, and attribution evidence were not established by the collected sources and require separate object- and lot-level research before they can support a valuation conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When records are available, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots should be reviewed at the individual-lot level rather than treated as automatic evidence of value.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q878346
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500330021
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/273751902/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94012843
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/119088487
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/242521
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Skreber
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Skreber
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Skreber
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/dirk-skreber/