# Fred Uhlmann artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/fred-uhlmann/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:53:47.260Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German, British
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Fred Uhlmann](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Kurt_Schwitters_Fred_Uhlman_1940.jpg/1280px-Kurt_Schwitters_Fred_Uhlman_1940.jpg)
Kurt Schwitters · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kurt_Schwitters_Fred_Uhlman_1940.jpg

## About Fred Uhlmann

Fred Uhlmann (1901–1985), commonly recorded by library and cultural authority sources as Fred Uhlman, was a German-British painter, writer, and lawyer of Jewish origin. His unusually broad professional identity matters when matching records: catalogues, authority files, books, and artworks may use different spellings or emphasize different parts of his career. The supplied institutional and authority evidence consistently identifies painting as part of his practice, although it does not establish a specific movement, signature subject, named series, or detailed chronology of his visual work. Collectors may encounter his name in art-market records alongside a much more visible literary identity. For that reason, an object attributed to him should be connected carefully to the correct person and checked under both Uhlman and Uhlmann. The available source pack supports his identity and lifespan more strongly than it supports a detailed account of his artistic development.

## Common works and media

Painting is the only visual-art medium directly supported by the collected identity sources. The source pack does not provide enough evidence to characterize recurring subjects, techniques, periods, editions, prints, drawings, sculpture, or other commonly traded work types. Potential records should also be searched under the Fred Uhlman name form used by major authority files.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by matching the work to the correct Fred Uhlman or Fred Uhlmann authority identity. The supplied evidence identifies him as a painter, but it provides no usable major auction-house biography, individual lot descriptions, or comparable-sale details. It therefore does not establish how subject, date, condition, provenance, support, or other object-specific characteristics have affected public results. Appraisily’s input indicates auction-record coverage, but those records must be reviewed at lot level before drawing conclusions about category, demand, or value. No price trend, scarcity claim, or attribution judgment should be inferred from the biographical sources alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For this artist, identity evidence is stronger than the supplied lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215937
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95847495/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Uhlman
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Uhlman
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG49114
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/fred-uhlmann/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kurt_Schwitters_Fred_Uhlman_1940.jpg