# Gerd Winner artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/gerd-winner/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:27:38.164Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking and graphic art

## Portrait

![Gerd Winner](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Gerd_Winner.jpg)
Bischöfliche Pressestelle Hildesheim (bph) · Attribution
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gerd_Winner.jpg

## About Gerd Winner

Gerd Winner was a German painter and printmaker born in 1936. VIAF reports that he died in 2026, although some collected authority excerpts still show an open-ended life span. His identity is documented across international museum and library systems: Tate and the Museum of Modern Art maintain artist records, while VIAF connects entries from Getty’s Union List of Artist Names, the German National Library, the Library of Congress, and other catalogues. These sources consistently associate Winner with painting and graphic practice, but the available evidence does not justify assigning him to a particular movement or school. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings, prints, and other graphic works. Stable authority identifiers are especially useful for distinguishing the artist from similarly named people or incomplete catalogue attributions. Detailed evidence about recurring subjects, named series, and the chronology of his work remains limited in the collected source pack.

## Common works and media

Public authority records support paintings, prints, and broader graphic work as the most defensible common-work groupings. The collected sources do not establish recurring subjects, named series, sculpture categories, specific print techniques, edition practices, or a reliable hierarchy among these media. Auction and appraisal records should therefore preserve the catalogued medium rather than infer a more specific technique from the artist’s general occupational labels.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s public artist page associates Gerd Winner with auction-price records, but the collected source pack does not expose enough lot-level evidence to describe a typical price range or trend. The defensible starting point is to separate paintings from prints and other graphic works, since authority records identify both painting and printmaking in his practice. Stable identifiers from VIAF, Getty ULAN, and Wikidata can help confirm that a catalogued work is linked to the correct artist entity. Valuation should rely on genuinely comparable public sale records when available; this identity profile does not support a price prediction.

## 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. Unsupported price trends or biographical details are not inferred from incomplete evidence.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/59297978/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1510913
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/gerd-winner-2154
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/6397
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500020459
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/160220688
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Winner
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/gerd-winner/