# Joseph Uhl artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:42:49.385Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Common media: Etching, Engraving, Printmaking, Painting

## Portrait

![Joseph Uhl](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Joseph_Uhl_autoportrait.png)
Joseph Uhl · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Uhl_autoportrait.png

## About Joseph Uhl

Joseph Uhl (1877–1945), also recorded as Josef Uhl, was a German printmaker and painter. Museum and authority records describe him more specifically as an etcher and engraver. The British Museum records that he was born in New York and later lived and worked in Munich, placing his career within a German artistic context despite his American birthplace. His documented practice encompasses intaglio printmaking and painting, while a signed self-portrait etching provides both an example of his technique and a surviving likeness. Collectors may encounter his name on prints, works catalogued as etchings or engravings, paintings, and auction listings filed under either spelling of his first name. Institutional profiles at the British Museum and National Gallery of Art, together with Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, and national-library authority records, help distinguish him from other artists named Uhl and support consistent cataloguing of his work.

## Common works and media

Public records identify Uhl with etching, engraving, printmaking, and painting. The source pack also includes a signed self-portrait etching made with roulette. Beyond that documented example, the available material does not establish recurring subjects, named series, edition structures, or a reliable hierarchy of common motifs.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first establish whether a work is an etching, engraving, another print, or a painting, because museum and authority records document Uhl across these media. Attribution should be checked under both Joseph Uhl and Josef Uhl, and any proposed connection to his Munich practice should be supported by object-level evidence rather than assumed from the name alone. Appraisily associates 142 auction-directory records with the public artist page, but the supplied source pack does not provide a category breakdown, individual sale dates, or realized prices. Comparable records should therefore be filtered to the same type of work and technique before they are used in an appraisal. This research supports artist identification and medium context; it does not support a price forecast, market trend, scarcity claim, or conclusion about a particular object's authorship.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Joseph Uhl, the present source pack is strongest on institutional identity and documented media; sale-level evidence must be reviewed separately.

## Sources

- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG49109
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/294775611/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28361664
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500335075
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.6958.html
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb166453524
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Uhl_autoportrait.png
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/joseph-uhl/