# Josef Floch artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/josef-floch/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:38:04.108Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1894-11-05
- Death date: 1977-10-26
- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting

## About Josef Floch

Josef Floch (1894–1977) was an American painter of Austrian origin. Authority records also index him as Joseph Floch, a spelling variant that matters when linking museum, library, and auction data. The collected sources establish his identity and painting practice more securely than they document his artistic classification: this source pack does not support assigning a named movement, recurring subject, series, or specific technique. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter Floch through paintings listed under either first-name form and through records connected by his Wikidata, Getty ULAN, and VIAF identifiers. For an Appraisily page, those authority links and the life dates provide a reliable entity-matching core, while interpretation of an individual work should remain tied to evidence visible in that work and its documented history rather than unsupported stylistic labels.

## Common works and media

The collected evidence identifies Floch as a painter, making paintings the supported broad work type for auction and appraisal searches. It does not establish particular painting media, recurring subjects, named series, prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or editioned works, so those categories should be added only when object-level or stronger scholarly evidence is available.

## Market and appraisal context

Market review should begin by confirming that a lot catalogued as Josef or Joseph Floch refers to the same artist represented by the authority records. The source pack supports paintings as the relevant broad auction category and the Appraisily page indicates an auction-record corpus, but it does not expose lot descriptions, dates, dimensions, condition, provenance, signatures, realized prices, or sale-house context. No price trend or ranking of those characteristics can be supported from this pack alone. A defensible appraisal should therefore compare the specific object only with sufficiently documented public sales, keeping identity matching and the limits of the available evidence explicit.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile distinguishes confirmed identity evidence from market details that remain undocumented in the collected source pack.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1704584
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500019633
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/91457900/
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Floch
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Floch
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/josef-floch/