# Frank Meisler artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/frank-meisler/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T11:56:02.705Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German, British, Israeli
- Common media: Sculpture, Architecture

## Portrait

![Frank Meisler](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Frank_Meisler.JPG)
Stone Owl · CC BY 2.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_Meisler.JPG

## About Frank Meisler

Frank Meisler, who died in 2018, was an architect and sculptor whose biography connected Danzig, Britain, and Israel. Authority records describe him as German-British-Israeli, while English-language sources emphasize his Israeli professional identity. He was born in the Free City of Danzig, grew up in England, and moved to Israel in 1956; he later died in Jaffa. The clearest documented sculptural context in this source pack is the Kindertransport. Dutch-language biographical material identifies Meisler especially with commemorative sculptural groups addressing that history. The sources do not establish a formal movement classification, so his work is more reliably contextualized through sculpture, architecture, migration, and commemoration. Collectors may encounter his name in sculpture listings, but authority data disagree over whether he was born in 1925 or 1929. Appraisily therefore leaves his birth year unresolved rather than selecting an unsupported date.

## Common works and media

The collected public sources identify Meisler primarily as a sculptor and architect. His clearest documented body of public work is a group of sculptures commemorating the Kindertransport. The pack does not establish a reliable broader inventory of auction media, materials, editions, or recurring subjects, so objects outside this documented sculptural context require work-specific research and careful attribution.

## Market and appraisal context

Frank Meisler's public identity is reasonably well anchored, but the collected source pack contains little item-level market evidence. Sculpture is the principal auction-relevant category supported here, and the Kindertransport groups provide one documented subject context. The pack does not substantiate material-specific premiums, edition hierarchies, condition adjustments, provenance effects, scarcity claims, or price trends. An appraisal should therefore establish the object's authorship and work-level identity before comparing it with public auction records. Comparable lots should be reviewed directly rather than drawing a value conclusion from the artist's name or overall record count alone.

## 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 preserves unresolved identity conflicts and does not infer unsupported market trends.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107292
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/314824528/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Meisler
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Meisler
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Meisler
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/frank-meisler/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_Meisler.JPG