# Hugó Scheiber artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/hugo-scheiber/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T11:34:03.304Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1873-09-29
- Death date: 1950-03-07
- Nationality: Hungarian
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Illustration

## Portrait

![Hugó Scheiber](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Hugo_Scheiber_-_Selfportrait.jpg)
Hugo Scheiber · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hugo_Scheiber_-_Selfportrait.jpg

## About Hugó Scheiber

Hugó Scheiber (1873–1950) was a Hungarian painter, illustrator, and draftsman. Authority records place both his birth and death in Budapest and give the full dates 29 September 1873 and 7 March 1950. His lifetime spans the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. The collected authority sources are strongest on his identity and professional roles; they do not provide enough institution-grade detail to assign a specific movement, named series, or recurring subject with confidence. Collectors may encounter his name in accented and unaccented forms, including Hugó Scheiber and Hugo Scheiber. In appraisal and auction settings, his documented fields of work support careful consideration of paintings, drawings, and illustrations. Any more specific claim about style, subject, date, or authorship should be tested against the individual object, its physical characteristics, and reliable cataloguing rather than inferred solely from the artist’s name.

## Common works and media

Authority records identify Scheiber as a painter, illustrator, and draftsman. Collectors may therefore encounter paintings, drawings, and illustrated works bearing his name. The collected pack does not establish particular subjects, named series, print editions, sculptures, ceramics, or posters, so those classifications should be used only when supported by the individual object and reliable cataloguing.

## Market and appraisal context

Public auction records can provide comparison points for works catalogued as by Hugó Scheiber, but the collected source pack does not contain individual lot details or support a defensible price trend. The authority records support distinctions among paintings, drawings, and illustrated works, so comparisons should begin with genuinely similar work types and media. When underlying sale records are available, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots can supply historical context. This pack does not establish condition, provenance, dimensions, edition status, subject-related demand, scarcity, or attribution for any individual object. Realized prices are historical observations rather than forecasts, and an artist-level record set cannot replace object-specific examination, authentication research, and carefully selected comparable sales.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile’s biographical core is grounded in public authority files; object-level conclusions require evidence specific to each work.

## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/144619822
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/38289681/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q376629
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500031263
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/hugo-scheiber/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hugo_Scheiber_-_Selfportrait.jpg