# Gerhard Höhme artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/gerhard-hohme/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:46:37.789Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1920-02-05
- Death date: 1989-06-29
- Nationality: German
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking, Drawing, Gouache, Collage, Lithography

## About Gerhard Höhme

Gerhard Höhme (1920–1989) was a German painter and printmaker, identified in international authority files under both Höhme and Hoehme. The collected records place his career within Germany’s postwar generation and document activity across painting and graphic media. Exhibition-related bibliographic metadata associated with him includes drawing, gouache, collage, and lithography, showing that his practice should not be reduced to one object type. Collectors may therefore encounter works catalogued as paintings, works on paper, collages, or prints, with the precise medium requiring confirmation from the object and its documentation. A secondary source in the pack associates Höhme with postwar abstraction and German Informel, but the available institution-grade excerpts do not independently establish that movement label. Appraisily consequently treats the association cautiously while relying on stronger authority records for his identity, dates, nationality, and occupations.

## Common works and media

Documented work types include paintings and graphic works, while exhibition-related bibliographic records specifically identify drawing, gouache, collage, and lithography. In auction and appraisal settings, these may appear as paintings, works on paper, collages, or prints. The source pack does not establish recurring subjects, named series, edition sizes, or the relative market frequency of these categories, so an individual object’s medium and technique should be verified directly.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with exact artist identification because authority records use both the Höhme and Hoehme spellings. The work must then be classified by medium and technique: a painting, drawing, gouache, collage, and lithograph belong to different comparison groups. Appraisily’s public artist page indicates auction-price coverage, but the collected source pack supplies no individual lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, condition reports, provenance, dimensions, or edition information. Those details would be needed before selecting comparable sales or drawing a value conclusion. The present evidence therefore supports an identity and work-type framework, not a price forecast or claim about market direction.

## 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. The present profile separates confirmed authority data from market details that still require lot-level evidence.

## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/087230453
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/77107770/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1511779
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500019617
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Hoehme
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/gerhard-hohme/