# Eberhard Viegener artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:52:39.286Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Movements: German Expressionism
- Common media: Painting, Graphic art, Woodcut, Sculpture

## About Eberhard Viegener

Eberhard Viegener (1890–1967) was a German painter and graphic artist identified in authority records with German Expressionism. A German-language biographical source also associates him with New Objectivity and describes him as a landscape and decorative painter, although those more specific classifications still need stronger institutional corroboration. His identity is consistently represented across Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, IdRef, MoMA, RKD, and other museum and library authority systems. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings, graphic works, and woodcuts. A publication for the 1919 reopening of Galerie Alfred Flechtheim credits Viegener with an original woodcut. The collected evidence also documents a later sculpture, the 1955 Pelican made for a church in Hagen-Holthausen, but one documented example does not establish sculpture as a common auction category. Appraisily's source data associates 179 auction records with this artist identity, creating a starting point for examining comparable sales without assuming that every catalog attribution has been independently authenticated.

## Common works and media

Paintings and graphic works are the best-supported categories for Eberhard Viegener. The source pack specifically documents an original woodcut published in connection with a 1919 Galerie Alfred Flechtheim exhibition. Landscape painting is mentioned in the collected German-language biography, but that subject classification has limited institutional support here. A 1955 expressionist Pelican sculpture is also documented, although the evidence does not show that sculpture is a common auction-market category for the artist.

## Market and appraisal context

The available market evidence is broad rather than lot-specific. Because Viegener is identified as both a painter and graphic artist, comparisons should first distinguish paintings from graphic works and woodcuts. The documented sculpture should not automatically be grouped with either category. An appraisal should also confirm that the attribution refers to the same Eberhard Viegener represented by the authority records. Appraisily can compare public auction records using auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and like-for-like lots when those details are available. This source pack does not expose individual catalog entries, condition reports, provenance histories, dimensions, or edition information, so it supports artist identification and category matching rather than a price prediction.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile distinguishes authority-supported facts from claims that still need stronger corroboration.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1279460
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/40171493/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/193285940
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500178190
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/41160
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhard_Viegener
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galerie_Alfred_Flechtheim_-_Wiederer%C3%B6ffnung_Ostern_1919.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gnadenkirche_Holthausen_3.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/eberhard-viegener/