# Johannes Meintjes artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/johannes-meintjes/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:51:24.708Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: South African
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Johannes Meintjes](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Johannes_Meintjes_1945.jpg)
Anne Fischer · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johannes_Meintjes_1945.jpg

## About Johannes Meintjes

Johannes Petrus Meintjes (1923–1980) was a South African artist, painter, and writer. The collected identity record connects his name with stable authority identifiers at Wikidata, VIAF, the Library of Congress, GND, ISNI, and RKD, helping distinguish him in catalogues and auction databases. Available biographical excerpts consistently describe both his visual-art practice and his writing, but this source pack does not establish a particular movement, school, recurring subject, or named series. For collectors, the clearest documented visual category is painting. Works attributed to him may therefore appear in auction and appraisal research under his full name or the shorter Johannes Meintjes. Appraisily’s artist-page input associates 194 auction-directory records with this public entity, indicating a substantial catalogue-search corpus. That count is not proof of authorship, authenticity, condition, or market direction. Each object still requires work-specific documentation, attribution review, and comparison.

## Common works and media

The collected biographical evidence identifies Meintjes as a painter, making paintings the only clearly supported common visual-art category in this source pack. It does not substantiate particular materials such as oil, watercolor, or mixed media, nor does it document recurring subjects, prints, editions, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or named series. Those classifications should be added only when supported by reliable object records or stronger institutional research.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by confirming that a catalogue entry refers to Johannes Petrus Meintjes and by identifying the object’s actual work type and medium. The collected evidence supports paintings as a relevant auction category but does not establish particular materials, subjects, dates, series, edition structures, provenance patterns, or condition norms. Those details must come from the object and its documentation. When public auction records are available, comparisons should retain the auction house, sale date, lot description, attribution language, dimensions, condition information, and realized price. This source pack includes an Appraisily auction-price page signal but no accessible major-auction-house biography or individual lot record, so it cannot support a price prediction, trend claim, or assertion of rarity.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When reliable records are available, analysis can incorporate sale dates, realized prices, attribution language, and comparable lots; gaps in the current evidence are disclosed rather than inferred.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6216855
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/25197866/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50013646
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1184809925
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000056154237
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/312267
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Meintjes
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Meintjes
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Meintjes
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/johannes-meintjes/