# Ignaz Epper artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/ignaz-epper/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:41:49.902Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1892-07-06
- Death date: 1969-01-12
- Nationality: Swiss
- Movements: Swiss Expressionism
- Common media: Woodcut, Linocut, Painting, Sculpture

## About Ignaz Epper

Ignaz Epper (1892–1969) was a Swiss painter, printmaker, graphic artist, and sculptor. Library authority records identify him across Swiss and European catalogues, while the available encyclopedia entries associate his best-known graphic work with Swiss Expressionism. Collectors are especially likely to encounter the woodcuts and linocuts he produced during the 1910s and 1920s, the period for which his printmaking is most often noted. His practice was not limited to relief printing: authority records also describe him as a painter, and broader identity records include sculpture. That range matters when matching a work to the correct artist, since Epper appears under different occupational descriptions while retaining a consistent preferred name and life dates. His graphic oeuvre received dedicated scholarly cataloguing in 2004 through a publication associated with the Ignaz and Mischa Epper Foundation. Appraisily therefore presents Epper as a multi-medium Swiss artist whose strongest documented collector context is early twentieth-century graphic art, while keeping medium, date, and attribution distinctions explicit.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter Ignaz Epper through woodcuts, linocuts, other graphic works, paintings, and, less commonly in the available evidence, sculpture. His woodcuts and linocuts from the 1910s and 1920s form the clearest documented period in the collected sources. Because the source pack does not identify recurring subjects or provide an auction-category breakdown, subject frequency and the relative market prevalence of each medium remain unconfirmed.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of an Ignaz Epper work should begin by distinguishing its medium and technique. A woodcut or linocut belongs to a different documented body of work from a painting or sculpture, and the available sources particularly emphasize graphic production from the 1910s and 1920s. A match to the published catalogue of Epper's graphic oeuvre can strengthen identification, but it does not replace examination of the individual object. When suitable records are available, comparable auction lots should be evaluated by work type, date, dimensions, subject, sale date, and realized price. The collected source pack does not support price forecasts or claims about rarity. Condition, provenance, signatures, edition information, and attribution must therefore be assessed from the work and its documentation rather than assumed from the artist name alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Claims are limited to the evidence collected for the artist, and individual works still require object-specific examination.

## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/083992324
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/27339154/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3792288
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500068522
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Epper
- Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Epper
- Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Epper
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/ignaz-epper/