# Hans Krüsi artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/hans-krusi/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:14:45.251Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1920-04-15
- Death date: 1995-09-09
- Nationality: Swiss
- Movements: Art Brut
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Mixed media on cardboard, Gouache, opaque white, spray color, and black felt-tip pen

## About Hans Krüsi

Hans Krüsi (1920–1995) was a Swiss painter associated with Art Brut. Authority records identify him as an artist and painter, while one VIAF-linked heading also describes him as a photographer. He was born in Zurich and died in St. Gallen. Krüsi’s public record is strongest in European library and authority files, with catalogued publications devoted to his pictures and drawings. A documented 1982 work combines gouache, opaque white, spray color, and black felt-tip pen on cardboard, illustrating the varied materials that may appear under his name. Collectors may therefore encounter paintings, drawings, and mixed-media works rather than a single uniform format. His Art Brut classification is repeated across several Wikipedia language editions, but the collected source pack does not include a museum or scholarly artist profile confirming that context. The movement label is consequently useful for discovery and entity matching, but it remains less securely sourced than Krüsi’s identity, nationality, occupation, and life years.

## Common works and media

Catalogued material supports paintings, pictures, and drawings by Hans Krüsi. A documented 1982 work on cardboard combines gouache, opaque white, colored spray, and black felt-tip pen, providing evidence for mixed-media works as another relevant category. Although a VIAF-linked authority heading also calls Krüsi a photographer, the collected sources do not establish photographs as a common form encountered at auction.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first match the object to Hans Krüsi’s authority-record identity, then distinguish comparable works by type, materials, technique, and documented date. The collected evidence supports paintings and drawings, while one documented 1982 mixed-media work uses gouache, opaque white, spray color, and black felt-tip pen on cardboard. Public sales should be compared only with genuinely similar works, using sale dates and realized prices where those records are available. This source pack includes an Appraisily auction-value page but no major auction-house biography or lot-level results, so it does not support a price forecast, market-trend statement, or claim that one Krüsi medium is categorically more valuable than another.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Source gaps are retained rather than converted into unsupported market claims.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q931779
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/59884238/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/111473667
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kr%C3%BCsi
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kr%C3%BCsi_(Maler)
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kr%C3%BCsi
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kr%C3%BCsi_Naife_Kunst.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/hans-krusi/