# Günter Horlbeck artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/gunter-horlbeck/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:39:33.404Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Common media: Painting, Graphic art, Printmaking

## About Günter Horlbeck

Günter Horlbeck (1927–2016) was a German painter, graphic artist, and printmaker. His identity and life years are represented across several established authority systems, including Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and national-library identifiers. These records provide a stable basis for distinguishing him from similarly named artists and for matching names found in catalogues or auction listings. Collectors may encounter Horlbeck’s name on paintings as well as prints and other graphic works, although the available source pack does not establish a particular movement, school, recurring subject, or named series. That limitation matters: a work should be described from its observable medium, technique, date, signature, and documentary history rather than assigned an unsupported stylistic label. Horlbeck’s documented activity across painting and printmaking also makes accurate work-type classification important when comparing an object with public auction records.

## Common works and media

The collected identity sources describe Horlbeck as a painter, graphic artist, and printmaker. Accordingly, works encountered in appraisal or auction contexts may be categorized as paintings, prints, or other graphic works. The source pack does not support more specific claims about techniques, subjects, editions, formats, or recurring series.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal research for a work attributed to Günter Horlbeck should begin by identifying its medium and work type, since paintings, prints, and other graphic works require different comparisons. Authority records can help normalize the artist’s name, but they do not authenticate an individual object. Useful auction comparisons should match the object as closely as possible and consider sale date, dimensions, technique, subject, condition, provenance, and, for prints, edition information when those details are documented. The collected source pack confirms an auction-facing artist page but does not provide usable lot-level descriptions or realized-price examples. Any valuation therefore requires inspection of the specific work and comparison with sufficiently documented public sales rather than a price prediction based only on the artist’s name.

## 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. Source limitations are retained so that identity evidence is not mistaken for authentication or valuation proof.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1324460
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/52481373/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500104138
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Horlbeck
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/gunter-horlbeck/