# Erich Hermès artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:20:17.824Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1881-01-18
- Death date: 1971-06-21
- Nationality: Swiss, German
- Common media: Painting, Decorative painting, Graphic art, Poster design, Sculpture, Drawing and illustration

## About Erich Hermès

Erich Hermès (1881–1971) was a German-born Swiss artist whose career was closely associated with Geneva. Authority records identify him under both the accented form “Erich Hermès” and the variant “Erich Hermes,” helping distinguish his work across catalogues and databases. His practice crossed fine and applied art: sources describe him as a painter, decorative painter, sculptor, graphic artist, poster designer, draftsman, and illustrator. Rather than tying him securely to one named movement, the available evidence places him within Geneva’s modern-era artistic context. This breadth explains why collectors may encounter his name on materially different objects, from paintings and drawings to posters, graphic works, sculpture, and decorative projects. For identification, the object’s medium, date, markings, documented history, and relationship to Hermès’s known Geneva practice are more informative than the surname alone. Public authority records consistently establish his Swiss artistic identity, German origin, and 1881–1971 lifespan.

## Common works and media

Documented areas of practice include paintings, decorative painting, drawings and illustrations, graphic art, poster design, and sculpture. These classifications describe Hermès’s established professional range; they do not establish that every object bearing his name is authentic or that each category appears with equal frequency at auction.

## Market and appraisal context

Erich Hermès’s multidisciplinary practice means that appraisal should begin by identifying the object category: a painting, drawing, poster, graphic work, sculpture, illustration, or decorative work may require a different set of comparables. Attribution should be checked carefully because authority records use both “Hermès” and “Hermes.” Condition, dimensions, date, provenance, materials, and edition information may affect how an individual object compares with public sales, but the collected sources do not support a general price trend or prediction. Relevant auction evidence should therefore be filtered by medium and work type, with sale date, realized price, attribution language, and similarity to the subject object considered together.

## 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. Identity evidence and market evidence are assessed separately so that biographical matching does not become an unsupported valuation claim.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43131459
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/1118145857075822921681/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/257887830
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Herm%C3%A8s
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Herm%C3%A8s
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/erich-hermes/