# Hermann Scherer artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:57:15.189Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Swiss
- Movements: Expressionism
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture, Wood sculpture

## Portrait

![Hermann Scherer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Hermann_Scherer_by_Hermann_Scherer_%281893-1927%29.jpg/1280px-Hermann_Scherer_by_Hermann_Scherer_%281893-1927%29.jpg)
Hermann Scherer · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hermann_Scherer_by_Hermann_Scherer_(1893-1927).jpg

## About Hermann Scherer

Hermann Scherer (1893–1927) was a Swiss artist associated with Expressionism who worked as both a painter and sculptor. German-language reference material also identifies him as a co-founder of the artists’ group Rot-Blau and gives particular prominence to his wood sculpture. Although his career was short, his practice crossed several object types, so collectors may encounter his name in connection with paintings, sculpture, and carved wooden works. Authority records are especially useful for matching Scherer’s identity because public descriptions differ somewhat in how they characterize his nationality, while consistently connecting the name with an Expressionist painter-sculptor active in the early twentieth century. The strongest identity supported by this source set is the Swiss artist born in 1893 and deceased in 1927, with Rot-Blau forming an important part of his artistic context. Any individual work still requires object-level examination rather than attribution from the artist’s name alone.

## Common works and media

Collectors and appraisers may encounter paintings and sculptures attributed to Hermann Scherer. Wood sculpture is a particularly notable part of the documented practice, while the collected portrait candidate also records a painted self-portrait. This source pack does not establish a reliable basis for listing editions, prints, drawings, ceramics, or posters as common auction categories.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s source pack indicates an auction-record footprint for Scherer, but it does not include a detailed major-auction-house result or lot essay. An appraisal should first distinguish paintings from sculpture, with carved wood treated as a particularly relevant sculptural category, and confirm that the attribution refers to the artist represented by the linked authority records. Comparable public sales should be selected from the same work category and reviewed at the individual-lot level. The supplied evidence does not establish how condition, provenance, dimensions, materials, or dating affected particular results. Record count alone cannot support a price trend, scarcity claim, or forecast, so a value conclusion requires examination of the specific object and appropriately matched comparable sales.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q677797
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500001652
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/18019590/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr90007796
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Scherer
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Scherer_(Bildhauer)
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Scherer
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hermann_Scherer_by_Hermann_Scherer_(1893-1927).jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/hermann-scherer/