# Ferdinand Gehr artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:17:13.373Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Swiss
- Common media: Painting, Stained glass, Murals and church painting, Postage stamp design

## Portrait

![Ferdinand Gehr](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/CH-KBAR_-_Portr%C3%A4t_Ferdinand_Gehr_-_KB-020356.tif/lossy-page1-1280px-CH-KBAR_-_Portr%C3%A4t_Ferdinand_Gehr_-_KB-020356.tif.jpg)
Maeder, Herbert, 1930–2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CH-KBAR_-_Portr%C3%A4t_Ferdinand_Gehr_-_KB-020356.tif

## About Ferdinand Gehr

Ferdinand Gehr (1896–1996) was a Swiss painter, stained-glass artist, and postage stamp designer whose career became closely associated with modern church art. Active from the 1920s, he developed a personal approach to Christian imagery across painting, murals, and stained glass. His religious commissions could provoke strong responses: murals for the Church of Bruderklaus in Oberwil, Zug, were covered following protests. Later exhibition catalogues recorded by IdRef include presentations associated with the Kunstverein St. Gallen and Kunstmuseum venues, indicating continued institutional attention to his work. Collectors may encounter Gehr through autonomous paintings as well as works or designs related to ecclesiastical settings. Because his practice crossed portable fine art, architectural decoration, and graphic design, identification should begin with the object's actual medium and function rather than assuming every work belongs to one category. Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and library-network records provide stable identifiers for matching Gehr across collections and catalogues.

## Common works and media

Gehr's documented practice includes paintings, murals, stained glass, and postage stamp design. Church art and Christian subjects are central to the available biographical record. The collected sources do not establish which formats dominate public auctions, so portable paintings or graphic material should not be treated as representative of his entire output without lot-level evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Market assessment for Ferdinand Gehr should begin by separating paintings and other portable works from stained-glass, mural, church-design, or postage-stamp material. The source pack confirms these distinct areas of practice but provides no lot-level descriptions, condition reports, provenance histories, dimensions, edition information, or realized-price comparables. Those omissions prevent a responsible price trend or value conclusion. For an individual object, its attribution, medium, function, and possible relationship to a documented church commission or Christian subject should be tested against physical evidence and available records. Appraisily can add auction-house descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when matching records are available; this research serves chiefly as an identity and work-type framework.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1405307
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/64805927/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500061465
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/175998361
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Gehr
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Gehr