# Erwin Heerich artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/erwin-heerich/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:26:41.949Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Common media: Sculpture, Graphic art, Design-related objects

## About Erwin Heerich

Erwin Heerich (1922–2004) was a German artist identified in international authority records as a sculptor and designer; a Dutch-language reference also describes him as a graphic artist. The collected records establish a consistent identity across Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, IdRef, and Library of Congress identifiers. They do not, however, provide enough biographical detail to assign him confidently to a named movement or describe a full career chronology. For collectors, the evidence supports a practical focus on sculpture, design-related objects, and graphic work rather than a broader stylistic label. Appraisily’s public artist page is associated with a body of auction records, so works attributed to Heerich may be encountered through resale and appraisal research. Any object-level conclusion should still be based on the work itself, its documentation, and genuinely relevant comparable sales rather than name matching alone.

## Common works and media

Supported work types include sculpture, design-related objects, and graphic art. The collected evidence does not establish recurring subjects, specific materials, editions, named series, or the relative auction frequency of these categories. Those details should be determined from the individual object and closely matching auction records rather than generalized from the artist’s identity profile.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should first distinguish among sculpture, design-related objects, and graphic work, the categories supported by the collected identity sources. Comparisons should then be limited to public auction records that genuinely match the object’s category and medium, with attention to recorded sale dates and realized results when those fields are available. The source pack confirms an Appraisily auction-record presence but does not expose lot-level materials, dimensions, condition reports, edition information, provenance, or prices. It therefore provides a research starting point, not a price forecast. Attribution and object-specific documentation should be checked before any comparable sale is treated as relevant.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. This profile’s identity evidence is stronger than its collected lot-level market detail.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q882835
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/37718270/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/076991202
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500006187
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Heerich
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/erwin-heerich/