# Fritz Halberg-Krauss artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/fritz-halberg-krauss/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:16:45.282Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1874-03-22
- Nationality: German
- Common media: Oil painting, Oil on wood, Oil on card, Oil on canvas mounted on card

## About Fritz Halberg-Krauss

Fritz Halberg-Krauss (1874–1951), born Friedrich Wilhelm Maximilian Theodor Krauss, was a German painter, engraver, and draftsman known principally for landscape painting. Wikidata and VIAF provide authority-level identity records, while the available German and French biographies associate his landscapes with Impressionism and the Munich School. That classification remains provisional here because the collected sources do not include a museum or scholarly discussion of his artistic development. Documented works depict rural and waterside settings, including haymaking near Chiemsee, the Amper river, and a picnic in woodland. The examples use oil on wood, card, and canvas mounted on card, with dimensions ranging from compact vertical compositions to broad panoramic formats. Collectors are therefore likely to encounter his name on German landscape paintings whose support, dimensions, subject, and geographic title need careful comparison with documented works and public auction records.

## Common works and media

The documented examples are oil landscapes on wood, card, or canvas mounted on card. Their subjects include rural work near Chiemsee, river scenery along the Amper, and figures picnicking in woodland. VIAF also identifies Halberg-Krauss as an engraver and draftsman, although the supplied object records do not show whether drawings or engravings commonly reach auction.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with the object's recorded medium, support, dimensions, and subject. The collected work records show meaningful physical differences: oil appears on wood, card, and canvas mounted on card, while subjects include Chiemsee, the Amper, and woodland scenery. These details can help narrow the selection of comparable auction lots. The supplied Appraisily input indicates an established auction-record footprint, but the fetched page did not expose individual sale results. This source pack therefore supports no conclusion about price levels or trends. A defensible valuation requires verified lot-level sale dates, realized prices, and sufficiently similar objects when those records are available.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. For this artist, authority records and documented public-domain works are available, but individual auction results were not exposed in the collected source pack.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28468742
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/8197119/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500081690
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Halberg-Krauss
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Halberg-Krauss
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fritz_Halberg-Krauss_Heuernte_am_Chiemsee.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fritz_Halberg-Krauss_An_der_Amper.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fritz_Halberg-Krauss_Picknick_im_Walde.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/fritz-halberg-krauss/