# Hans Zatzka artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/hans-zatzka/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:35:48.706Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1859-03-08
- Death date: 1945-12-07
- Nationality: Austrian
- Movements: Academic art
- Common media: Oil painting on canvas

## About Hans Zatzka

Hans Zatzka (1859–1945) was an Austrian painter associated with academic, fantasy, religious, and genre imagery. Getty ULAN, Wikidata, and VIAF consistently identify him as an Austrian painter, while the collected image records document oil paintings on canvas. Their subjects range from a Madonna and Child composition to an odalisque, alpine flowers, and an interior genre scene. Collectors may encounter his work under several recorded names, including P. Ronsard, Zabateri, Joseph Bernard, J. Bernard, and Bernard or Bernárd Zatzka. These variants are important for entity matching because a work catalogued under an alternate signature may otherwise be separated from records under Hans Zatzka. The Joseph Bernard name requires particular care because public biographical sources note the possibility of confusion with the French sculptor of that name. Appraisily therefore treats name, signature, medium, subject, and record linkage as distinct pieces of identification evidence rather than assuming that every matching name establishes authorship.

## Common works and media

Public records and collected images most clearly document oil paintings on canvas. Examples encompass academic and fantasy imagery, religious compositions such as the Madonna and Child, odalisque figures, floral or alpine subjects, and domestic genre scenes. Works may be catalogued under Hans Zatzka or a documented alternate name, making the exact signature and attribution wording important when searching auction records.

## Market and appraisal context

A Hans Zatzka appraisal should begin by resolving the artist identity and any signature variant. Public authority and biographical records connect Zatzka with names including Joseph Bernard, P. Ronsard, and Zabateri, so comparable records should be checked for both alternate cataloguing and possible namesake confusion. Once identity is resolved, comparisons should remain close to the object’s work type, oil-on-canvas medium, dimensions, subject, and sale date. The collected source pack signals a substantial body of Appraisily auction records, but it does not provide an accessible major auction-house biography or individual lot results for verification. Accordingly, this profile does not infer a price trend or predict value. Any valuation should use documented, correctly attributed public sales that are genuinely comparable to the work being examined.

## 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 and can be matched reliably.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347034
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500110199
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/103870781/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zatzka
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zatzka
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zatzka
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hans_Zatzka_Madonna_mit_Christuskind_und_Putti.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odalisque_by_Hans_Zatzka,_oil_on_canvas.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hans_Zatzka_(1859-1949)_Alpenflora.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hans_Zatzka_Fr%C3%BChlingsgef%C3%BChle.jpg