# Heinrich Vogeler artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Movements: Düsseldorf school of painting, Art Nouveau, Expressionism, Cubism-influenced work, Futurism-influenced work, Socialist Realism
- Common media: Painting, Graphic art and prints, Drawing and etching, Illustration, Architecture and design

## Portrait

![Heinrich Vogeler](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Heinrich_Vogeler_-_1897.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heinrich_Vogeler_-_1897.jpg

## About Heinrich Vogeler

Heinrich Vogeler (1872–1942) was a German painter, graphic artist, architect, designer, illustrator, author, and educator. He is closely associated with the Worpswede artists’ colony and became particularly known for work made in an Art Nouveau context. His career later moved through expressionist concerns and increasingly political imagery. Accounts of his work also describe experiments influenced by Cubism and Futurism, followed by paintings aligned with Socialist Realism after his move to Moscow. This wide-ranging career means that collectors may encounter Vogeler as a painter, printmaker, illustrator, designer, or maker of objects connected with architecture and decorative arts. Appraisily records therefore need to be read with attention to the work’s date, medium, subject, and attribution rather than the artist name alone.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts may include paintings, drawings, graphic works, etchings, illustrated material, prints, editions, decorative designs, and mixed-media objects. Vogeler’s documented roles as painter, graphic artist, illustrator, architect, and designer create a varied body of work. Subject matter may relate to the Worpswede environment, landscape and cultural life, literary or illustrative projects, or political themes in later work. Identification should therefore record the exact medium, dimensions, date or period, technique, edition information where applicable, signature, inscriptions, and any provenance or catalogue references.

## Market and appraisal context

Vogeler’s public auction record spans paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture or mixed media, and decorative art or editions. Appraisily’s collected market index shows substantial recorded activity, but its figures are not a complete census of sales and should not be treated as a guaranteed price guide. For an individual work, appraisal depends on medium, size, date, condition, restoration, signature or inscription, edition details, provenance, exhibition or catalogue references, attribution confidence, subject matter, and comparable recent sales. Distinguishing an Art Nouveau work from a later expressionist or politically oriented work may be important because Vogeler’s career changed considerably over time.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213734
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/6179
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.28732.html
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG49943
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500012264
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/56628484/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/02876210X
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Vogeler
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Vogeler
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/heinrich-vogeler/