# Georg Kars artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/georg-kars/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:34:07.595Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1882-05-02
- Death date: 1945-02-06
- Nationality: Czech
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Lithography

## Portrait

![Georg Kars](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Georges_Kars%2C_Autoportrait.jpg)
Georges Kars · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georges_Kars,_Autoportrait.jpg

## About Georg Kars

Georg Kars (1882–1945), widely catalogued as Georges Kars and also identified as Jiří Kars or Jiří Karpelès, was a Czech painter, draughtsman and lithographer. The strongest detailed authority record in the supplied sources gives 2 May 1882 as his birth date and says he settled in Paris in 1907 or 1908. Other public records disagree over the birth year and the precise date of death, so those details should be read with that qualification. Reference summaries describe landscapes and nude subjects among his work. Kars therefore appears in collecting and cataloguing contexts across painting, drawing and lithography, with records distributed under several spellings of his name. For collectors, the practical challenge is often entity matching: linking a catalogue entry or auction listing to the same artist despite French and Czech name variants. Appraisily uses authority identifiers and cross-source comparison to keep those records connected while preserving unresolved biographical conflicts.

## Common works and media

Authority data identifies Kars as a painter, draughtsman and lithographer, while reference summaries point particularly to landscapes and nude paintings. Collectors may therefore encounter paintings, works on paper, drawings and lithographic impressions catalogued under several forms of his name. These categories support discovery and comparison but should not be treated as proof that an unsigned or uncertain work is by Kars.

## Market and appraisal context

A market assessment for Kars should begin with confirmed identity because his records appear under Georg, Georges, George and Jiří name forms. Relevant comparisons should distinguish paintings, drawings and lithographs and should match landscape or nude subjects with closely related works rather than treating every record as interchangeable. The supplied Appraisily index indicates auction-record coverage, but this research pack contains no individual lot descriptions or realized-price evidence. Any appraisal should therefore examine the underlying comparable lots before reaching a value conclusion. Entity research can organize the evidence and reduce mistaken matches, but it cannot establish authenticity, attribution, condition or current value on its own.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/027602923
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/7659485/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1508974
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500022554
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Kars
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Kars
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Kars
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/georg-kars/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georges_Kars,_Autoportrait.jpg