# Jan Burssens artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/jan-burssens/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:33:50.881Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Belgian, Flemish
- Movements: Existentialist matter painting
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Jan Burssens](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Jan_Burssens_by_Willy_Bosschem246.jpg)
Artist : Willy Bosschem; photo by Georges Jansoone ( JoJan ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Burssens_by_Willy_Bosschem246.jpg

## About Jan Burssens

Jan Burssens (1925–2002) was a Belgian painter associated with the Flemish art context. A Dutch-language biographical source characterizes him as an important Flemish practitioner of existentialist matter painting, although the collected institutional authority records do not provide enough descriptive text to confirm a more detailed movement history. His identity is nevertheless well established across international authority systems, including Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Collectors are most likely to encounter Burssens through paintings offered in auction and appraisal settings. The present evidence does not establish particular subjects, named series, working periods, or techniques beyond painting, so those details should be determined from the individual object and stronger catalogue or museum documentation. Authority identifiers are especially useful for distinguishing his records across languages and matching auction entries to the correct Belgian artist.

## Common works and media

The supported work type is painting. The collected sources do not establish a reliable list of recurring subjects, named series, print editions, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, or posters. Objects described under those categories should therefore be assessed individually and should not be treated as characteristic Burssens works without additional documentary or catalogue evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Publicly collected evidence confirms that Jan Burssens has an auction-facing artist page and is principally identified as a painter, but the source pack contains no lot-level descriptions or realized-price data. It therefore does not support a price forecast, market trend, or artist-specific hierarchy of subjects and periods. An appraisal should begin by confirming that the object and its documentation refer to the same Jan Burssens represented by the cited authority records. Relevant auction comparisons should then be selected from documented works of the same type, with their sale dates, realized prices, and available catalogue evidence reviewed directly rather than inferred from the artist name alone.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q870796
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500068919
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/43087396/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78000267
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb149708703
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Burssens
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Burssens
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Burssens
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jan-burssens/