# Erhard Hippold artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/erhard-hippold/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:24:54.822Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Common media: Painting, Graphic art, Works on paper and prints

## About Erhard Hippold

Erhard Hippold (1909–1972) was a German painter and graphic artist. The collected authority data establishes his identity and life years, while the available biographical material confirms the two principal professional roles. The source pack does not provide enough scholarly detail to assign him confidently to a named movement, school, or documented series, so those fields remain open rather than inferred. Collectors are likely to encounter Hippold through paintings, graphic works, works on paper, and prints appearing in public auction records. Appraisily's matched market index also places some lots in broader categories, but those classifications should be checked against photographs, cataloguing, signatures, and medium descriptions before being treated as part of his established oeuvre. His auction presence supports comparison among publicly reported lots, yet identity matching remains important because name-based feeds can contain incomplete or broadly categorized records.

## Common works and media

The available identity sources describe Hippold as a painter and graphic artist, making paintings, graphic works, works on paper, and prints the best-supported work types for appraisal research. Appraisily's matched auction data also contains broader category labels for sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions. Those broader classifications require inspection of individual lot descriptions and images before they can be accepted as representative of his documented production.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Erhard Hippold should begin with lot-level comparisons involving the same medium, approximate dimensions, date, subject, and attribution status. Condition, restoration, surface quality, signatures, inscriptions, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references may all affect how closely a sale record compares. For prints or other editions, edition size, impression details, and completeness should also be reviewed. Publicly reported sale dates and realized prices provide useful context, but they should not be treated as automatic price predictions. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, buyer-premium reporting, and later attribution changes can make apparently similar records difficult to compare directly.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Incomplete feeds, private sales, and attribution changes may limit coverage.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1350851
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/52682861/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/98711
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Hippold
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/erhard-hippold/