# Ingrid von Kruse artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/ingrid-von-kruse/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:13:02.239Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Common media: Photography

## Portrait

![Ingrid von Kruse](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Barcelona%281%29.jpg/1280px-Barcelona%281%29.jpg)
Jörg von Kruse · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barcelona(1).jpg

## About Ingrid von Kruse

Ingrid von Kruse is identified in the collected public records as a German photographer. A German-language biographical source describes her as a freelance photographer whose principal field is portrait photography. That focus provides the clearest available context for understanding works attributed to her: they should be approached primarily as photographic portraits rather than assigned to an unsupported artistic movement or school. Her identity is also connected to records maintained by VIAF, the Library of Congress, the German National Library, ISNI, IdRef, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, helping distinguish her from similarly named creators. Collectors may encounter her name in auction data associated with photographs, but the available source material does not establish specific print processes, editions, series, or dates of activity. Birth and death information is likewise not confirmed by the collected excerpts, so those fields remain open rather than inferred.

## Common works and media

The supported work type is photography, with portrait photography identified as the artist's principal focus. The source pack does not establish particular photographic processes, named portrait sitters, series, editions, publication formats, or whether signed and unsigned examples commonly appear at auction. Those details should therefore be documented from the individual object rather than assumed from the artist name.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal purposes, the available evidence supports treating Ingrid von Kruse as a photographer associated especially with portraiture. Evaluation should begin by confirming that the object is a photographic work and that its attribution matches the documented artist identity. The portrait subject and the work's relationship to her stated professional focus can provide useful descriptive context. The collected pack does not expose individual auction records, realized prices, dates, editions, print processes, condition reports, or provenance histories, so it cannot support a price forecast or market-trend claim. Comparable public lots should be assessed only when their creator, medium, subject, physical characteristics, and sale documentation can be verified.

## 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. For Ingrid von Kruse, the present identity evidence is stronger than the collected sale-level evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23059426
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_von_Kruse
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/22213308/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88266144
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/118567276
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000115619939
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/144077612
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12335511t
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/ingrid-von-kruse/