# Erich Demmin artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/erich-demmin/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:05:46.003Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Common media: Painting, Graphic art

## About Erich Demmin

Erich Demmin is identified in the collected public record as a German landscape painter, graphic artist, and restorer. Authority links associated with his name include Wikidata, VIAF, the German National Library, and RKD, providing useful identifiers for matching the artist across catalogues and databases. The available biographical evidence is limited, however, and does not establish his birth or death dates, training, exhibitions, institutional collections, or association with a named artistic movement. The clearest documented context is his connection with landscape painting and graphic work, alongside restoration activity. Collectors evaluating a work attributed to Demmin should distinguish identity matching from object-level authentication: an authority record can clarify which artist a catalogue intends to name, but it cannot by itself verify a signature, attribution, date, or provenance. Further research should therefore begin with the individual object's inscriptions, physical characteristics, ownership history, and catalogue documentation.

## Common works and media

The available biography supports two broad contexts: landscape-oriented painting and graphic art. It does not identify specific painting materials, printmaking processes, named series, recurring locations, edition sizes, or documented sculpture, ceramic, poster, or design production. Object-level cataloguing should therefore retain the medium and subject stated by the auction house or established through direct examination rather than assigning a more specific category from the artist name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected sources identify landscape painting and graphic art as the most relevant work-type contexts for Erich Demmin, but they do not provide detailed auction results or a sufficiently documented market history. An appraisal should record the object's exact medium, dimensions, support, signature or inscriptions, condition, date, provenance, and attribution language before selecting comparable lots. Graphic works should also be checked for edition information when applicable. Comparisons are most useful when they involve genuinely similar objects and disclose the auction house, sale date, lot description, and realized price. Because the current evidence does not establish price patterns or scarcity, no directional market or value claim is warranted from this profile alone.

## 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. For Erich Demmin, the present identity evidence is stronger than the retrieved biographical and market evidence, so object-level conclusions require additional documentation.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24199594
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Demmin
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/384158915858650000007/
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1209624702
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/334167
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/erich-demmin/