# Erik Langker artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/erik-langker/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:41:39.537Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Australian
- Common media: Painting

## About Erik Langker

Erik Langker (1898–1982) was an Australian painter whose identity is recorded by Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN and Art UK. Authority records also preserve the variant first name Eric and identify him with the title Sir. These sources establish his name, occupation, nationality and lifespan, but the collected material is not detailed enough to assign him confidently to a particular movement, school, subject specialty or named series. Collectors are most likely to encounter Langker through paintings and auction records, although individual works still require careful identification. Most collected authorities give 1898 as his birth year, while one Getty-linked form represented through VIAF gives 1899. Appraisily therefore uses 1898 as the better-supported year while keeping the discrepancy visible. Exact birth and death dates remain unverified in the available public source pack.

## Common works and media

Painting is the only work type directly supported by the collected identity authorities. The available sources do not establish recurring subjects, named series, print editions, sculpture, ceramics or other media, so those categories should not be attributed to Erik Langker without additional catalogue or auction-house evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected source pack confirms that Erik Langker has an Appraisily auction-record page, but it does not expose usable lot descriptions or realized-price evidence. It therefore cannot support conclusions about typical prices, market direction, scarcity, preferred subjects or the relative performance of different work types. An appraisal should rely on verified auction-house cataloguing and genuinely comparable public sales after the object and its attribution have been documented. Sale dates, realized prices and relevant lot characteristics can then provide context. The present research is suitable for artist identity matching, but it does not justify a valuation forecast or artist-specific market trend claim.

## 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 currently has stronger identity evidence than lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/94344283/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20895057
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/langker-erik-18981982
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500151856
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/erik-langker/