# Diter Rot artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/diter-rot/
Profile generated: 2026-08-18T19:06:42.685Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Swiss
- Movements: Concrete poetry
- Common media: Artist's books, Editioned prints, Sculpture and object art, Found materials, Perishable food materials, including chocolate, Engraving and lithography

## Portrait

![Diter Rot](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Dieter_Roth-by_Lothar_Wolleh.jpg)
Lothar Wolleh · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dieter_Roth-by_Lothar_Wolleh.jpg

## About Diter Rot

Diter Rot is a documented name variant of Dieter Roth (1930–1998), the Swiss artist, poet, printmaker, sculptor, and maker of interdisciplinary object works. He also signed work as Dieter Rot, while authority and museum records generally organize his career under Dieter Roth. Roth is associated with concrete poetry and is particularly recognized for expanding the artist's book beyond conventional illustration or publishing. His practice also encompassed editioned prints, engraving, lithography, sculpture, found materials, and objects incorporating perishable substances such as chocolate. These materially unstable works made transformation and decay part of the object's continuing history. Collectors may consequently encounter his output in very different forms, from books and graphic editions to sculptural or mixed-material objects. Because his practice crossed disciplines and he used several versions of his name, reliable identification depends on matching the object, signature, medium, publication or edition information, and documented identity records.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter artist's books, editioned prints, engravings, lithographs, sculptures, object works, and mixed-material constructions. Some works employ found objects or perishable food materials, including chocolate, and may display deliberate or inherent physical change. Printed and book-based works should be distinguished by publication and edition details, while materially complex objects require close condition reporting.

## Market and appraisal context

Diter Rot works reach appraisal and auction settings through several categories, including artist's books, editioned prints, graphic works, sculptures, and mixed-material objects. Relevant appraisal facts vary by category. For a print or book, edition information and the completeness of the object can be important. For sculptures containing found or perishable substances, current condition and the behavior of the materials require especially careful documentation. Attribution should also account for the artist's documented name variants. Comparable public auction records are most useful when they concern a similar work type, medium, edition status, condition, and sale period. The collected source pack does not provide detailed major-auction-house results, so no price trend or value prediction is asserted here.

## 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. Source coverage and object-specific evidence determine the confidence of any appraisal.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25591768
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/118476147/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500023079
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/028963636
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Roth
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Roth
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Roth
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/diter-rot/
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/5042
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/dieter-roth-1870