# Eugen Spiro artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/eugen-spiro/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:24:00.000Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1874-04-18
- Death date: 1972-09-26
- Nationality: German, American
- Common media: Painting, Graphic art, Lithography

## Portrait

![Eugen Spiro](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/1929_circa_Erich_Salomon_Fotografie_Berliner_Secession_Banquet_Gruppenfoto_Fritz_Sch%C3%B6n%2C_Julius_Meier-Graefe%2C_Gertrud_Simon%2C_Eugen_Spiro%2C_Annemarie_Meier-Graefe%2C_Elisabeth_Spiro.jpg)
Erich Salomon · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1929_circa_Erich_Salomon_Fotografie_Berliner_Secession_Banquet_Gruppenfoto_Fritz_Sch%C3%B6n,_Julius_Meier-Graefe,_Gertrud_Simon,_Eugen_Spiro,_Annemarie_Meier-Graefe,_Elisabeth_Spiro.jpg

## About Eugen Spiro

Eugen Spiro (born Jacob Eugen Spiro and also catalogued as Eugene Spiro) was a German-American painter, graphic artist, and lithographer. He was born in Breslau, now Wrocław, in 1874 and died in New York in 1972. Public authority and museum records identify him across German, French, and American cataloguing traditions. His documented practice includes painting and printmaking, with portraits and landscapes specifically associated with his work. This breadth matters for collectors because objects attributed to Spiro can appear in materially different forms, including unique paintings, graphic works, and lithographs. His transatlantic identity also means that catalogs may use Eugen or Eugene and may characterize his nationality differently. Appraisily therefore treats name variants, medium, subject, and record provenance as important entity-matching details. The available sources establish his identity and broad practice, but they do not provide enough institution-grade detail to assign a specific movement or reconstruct a complete career chronology.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter paintings, portrait and landscape subjects, graphic works, and lithographs catalogued under Eugen or Eugene Spiro. The source pack supports these broad categories but does not establish how frequently each type appears at auction or identify formal series. Individual objects should therefore be classified from their actual medium and subject rather than from the artist name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by determining whether a work is a painting, graphic work, or lithograph and whether its subject is a portrait or landscape. The collected Appraisily page signals a body of auction records for Spiro, but this source pack does not expose individual lot descriptions, realized prices, condition reports, or provenance. This profile therefore does not infer a price range or market trend. The most defensible comparisons are public records that match the work type and subject. Catalog searches should also account for Eugen, Eugene, and Jacob Eugen Spiro because name variants can divide relevant results. Object-specific attribution and value conclusions require direct examination and supporting documentation in addition to artist-name matches.

## 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 separates well-supported identity facts from market questions that require item-level evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214008
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500002701
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/085622923
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG46992
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Spiro
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Spiro
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Spiro
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/eugen-spiro/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1929_circa_Erich_Salomon_Fotografie_Berliner_Secession_Banquet_Gruppenfoto_Fritz_Sch%C3%B6n,_Julius_Meier-Graefe,_Gertrud_Simon,_Eugen_Spiro,_Annemarie_Meier-Graefe,_Elisabeth_Spiro.jpg