# Johann Baptista Homann artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/johann-baptista-homann/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:10:07.996Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Common media: Engraved maps and cartographic prints, Printed maps and publications

## Portrait

![Johann Baptista Homann](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Homann%2C_Johann_Baptist_%281664-1725%29.jpg/1280px-Homann%2C_Johann_Baptist_%281664-1725%29.jpg)
Johann Wilhelm Windter · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Homann,_Johann_Baptist_(1664-1725).jpg

## About Johann Baptista Homann

Johann Baptista Homann—commonly Johann Baptist Homann, with authority records also carrying Hohmann and Latinized forms—was a German geographer, cartographer, engraver, and publisher active around the turn of the eighteenth century. The collected authority data most often places his life in 1664–1724, although variant headings and the portrait record create a date conflict that should be checked before exact dates are displayed. A biographical source in the pack reports that he moved from civil-law notarial work into engraving and cartography and established his own printing house in 1702. His output included maps of the Americas, helping explain why his name appears in collections and auction catalogues devoted to historical maps and prints. Collectors may encounter his work under Johann Homann, Johann Baptist Homann, Iohannes Baptista Homann, or Hohmann. These variants matter for entity matching because cataloguers can assign related cartographic material to different standardized forms of the same maker’s name.

## Common works and media

Collectors commonly encounter Homann’s name on historical maps, engraved cartographic sheets, and printed geographic works. Maps of the Americas are one documented subject in the collected sources. Catalogues may use Johann Homann, Johann Baptist Homann, Johann Baptista Homann, Iohannes Baptista Homann, or Hohmann, so searches and attribution checks should account for these variants. The source pack does not establish a reliable basis for associating him with paintings, sculpture, ceramics, or other unrelated categories.

## Market and appraisal context

Homann material should be appraised as cartographic and printed material, with comparisons restricted to genuinely similar objects. Begin by matching the maker across Homann/Hohmann and Baptist/Baptista variants, then identify whether the object is a map, engraving, or publication and record its geographic subject. For a physical-sheet appraisal, document the title, imprint, dimensions, technique, margins, color, inscriptions, condition, and any evidence of edition or state before selecting comparable sales. Those object-specific details are not established by the collected biographical pack and require direct inspection and lot-level records. The source pack contains an Appraisily artist-page signal but no accessible realized-price details or major auction-house entries; it therefore supports category-level context, not a price forecast or market-trend claim.

## 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. This profile’s biographical foundation is stronger than its collected market evidence, so object-level and auction-record verification remains necessary.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62706
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500034027
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/47031432/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Homann
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Baptist_Homann
- Wikipedia: https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Baptist_Homann
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/johann-baptista-homann/