# Emil Volkers artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/emil-volkers/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:24:41.444Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Lithography

## About Emil Volkers

Emil Volkers (1831–1905) was a German artist documented by international authority records as a painter, draftsman, and lithographer. Biographical sources give his full name as Emil Ferdinand Heinrich Volkers and describe him especially as a painter of horses and genre scenes. His surviving identity record therefore places him within the broader context of nineteenth-century German equestrian and everyday-life imagery, while also indicating activity across paintings, drawings, and lithographic work. Collectors may encounter his shorter professional name, Emil Volkers, as well as the expanded name used in biographical references. Authority links are useful for separating his work from objects by similarly named artists and for joining records held under different name forms. The available public source pack is stronger on identity and artistic roles than on individual works, chronology, exhibitions, or institutional holdings, so object-level conclusions should remain tied to the evidence supplied by each work and its documented history.

## Common works and media

Public authority and biographical records identify Volkers with painting, drawing, and lithography. Horses and equestrian imagery are his clearest documented subject focus, alongside genre scenes. The source pack does not establish particular named series, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, or other work types, so those categories should not be attributed to him without additional evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first match the object to the authority identity for Emil Volkers (1831–1905), then compare like with like. Paintings, drawings, and lithographs should be evaluated within their respective media, while equestrian subjects should be compared with materially similar horse imagery rather than unrelated genre scenes. The collected source pack confirms the existence of an Appraisily auction-price page but does not expose individual lots or realized prices. It therefore does not support a generalized price trend or prediction. A defensible value analysis requires verified lot-level auction records, relevant sale dates, realized prices, and genuinely comparable works when those records are available.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15808017
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500032907
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/67270173/
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Volkers
- Wikipedia: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Volkers
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/emil-volkers/