# Horst Kerstan artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/horst-kerstan/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:00:06.361Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Ceramics

## About Horst Kerstan

Horst Kerstan is identified in the collected public sources as a ceramicist and artist. His identity is connected to records maintained by Wikidata and several international library-authority systems, including VIAF, the Library of Congress, the German National Library, ISNI, IdRef, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The available German-language biographical source gives his fuller name as Horst Eduard Kerstan and describes him as German. Because the collected material contains little accessible biographical or institutional detail, this profile does not assign birth and death dates, a movement, a school, or specific periods of activity. Collectors are most likely to encounter Kerstan's name in relation to ceramic works, but individual objects should be assessed from their own documentation and securely matched auction records.

## Common works and media

The available biographical description supports ceramics as Kerstan's principal documented medium. The source pack does not provide enough detail to identify recurring vessel forms, techniques, glazes, subjects, editions, series, or periods without speculation. Auction and appraisal records should therefore describe each object from its observable characteristics and documentation rather than assume a standard Kerstan work type.

## Market and appraisal context

The supplied Appraisily inventory associates 275 auction records with the Horst Kerstan name, indicating that comparable entries may be available for research. The collected public source pack, however, does not expose individual lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, or condition information. It therefore cannot support a typical value, price trend, or hierarchy of work types. Market analysis should begin by confirming that each comparison concerns the same artist and a genuinely comparable ceramic object. Conclusions should remain provisional until the relevant auction-house descriptions and results can be reviewed.

## 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/Q28802585
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Kerstan
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/903841/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2006028156
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/122761103
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000052037754
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/189802340
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16985248z
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/horst-kerstan/