# Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:53:20.693Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1804-03-01
- Death date: 1877-04-18
- Nationality: German
- Common media: Painting, Lithography, Photography, Engraving and illustration

## Portrait

![Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Franz_Hanfst%C3%A4ngl.jpg/1280px-Franz_Hanfst%C3%A4ngl.jpg)
Friedrich Dürck · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franz_Hanfst%C3%A4ngl.jpg

## About Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl

Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl (1804–1877) was a German artist active as a painter, lithographer, and photographer, with biographical sources also placing him in a Bavarian context. Authority records identify him as both Franz Hanfstaengl and Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl. His interest for collectors comes from work across several important nineteenth-century image-making practices rather than from a securely documented association with one artistic movement. His name can be encountered on paintings, printed images, photographs, illustrations, and reproductive publications. Library catalogues assign him roles including artist, author, engraver, illustrator, lithographer, and photographer, reflecting a varied production and publication history. Bibliographic records also place the abbreviated name “F. Hanfstaengl” on reproduction books issued after his death. Those later credits may concern a publishing enterprise or legacy rather than an object personally executed by the artist. Establishing the object type, date, process, and credited maker is therefore essential when researching material associated with his name.

## Common works and media

Material associated with Hanfstaengl may appear as paintings, lithographs, photographs, engravings, illustrations, photomechanical reproductions, or illustrated publications. Collectors may also encounter later books credited to “F. Hanfstaengl.” Those publication credits require careful interpretation because the date may indicate a publisher or firm connection rather than personal execution by the nineteenth-century artist.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal begins by determining whether an object is a painting, lithograph, engraving, photograph, photomechanical reproduction, or publication. The date and exact credit line are especially important because catalogues contain Hanfstaengl-branded publications issued after Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl died in 1877. Such material should not automatically be treated as a work personally executed by him. Public auction records are most useful when comparisons match the medium, production process, attribution, and approximate date of the object under review. The available source pack establishes an auction-record signal but does not provide detailed lot descriptions or enough evidence for price forecasts, rarity claims, or market-trend conclusions.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine identity and authority research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/98871537/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/085905437
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q647812
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500017348
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hanfstaengl
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hanfstaengl
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hanfstaengl
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/franz-seraph-hanfstaengl/