# Joseph Wopfner artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/joseph-wopfner/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:54:31.053Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Austrian
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Joseph Wopfner](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Ludwig_von_Zumbusch_-_Bildnis_des_Malers_Josef_Wopfner_%281882%29.jpg)
Ludwig von Zumbusch · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ludwig_von_Zumbusch_-_Bildnis_des_Malers_Josef_Wopfner_(1882).jpg

## About Joseph Wopfner

Joseph Wopfner (1843–1927), also catalogued as Josef Wopfner, was an Austrian painter best known through the surviving public record as a landscape specialist. A collected German-language biography associates him with the Munich School and notes his recurring use of motifs from the Chiemgau region, which led to his description as a Chiemsee painter. That regional focus is the clearest documented context for understanding why collectors encounter his name on lake and countryside scenes. Authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty ULAN help distinguish him from similarly named artists and connect the Joseph and Josef forms of his name. In auction and appraisal settings, his works are therefore most plausibly encountered as paintings centered on landscape and Chiemgau or Chiemsee subject matter. The available source pack is stronger on identity than on training, exhibitions, chronology, or individual titled works, so those details require confirmation from museum catalogues or scholarly records.

## Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter paintings, particularly landscapes and scenes using Chiemgau or Chiemsee motifs. The source pack does not establish a documented practice in prints, sculpture, ceramics, or editions, so objects in those categories should not be attributed to Wopfner without stronger catalogue and object-specific evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal, the strongest available comparison starts with confirmed attribution to Joseph or Josef Wopfner and with the work's relationship to his documented landscape practice, especially Chiemgau or Chiemsee imagery. Medium, dimensions, condition, provenance, date, inscriptions, and framing can materially affect comparisons, but the collected source pack does not document how those variables affected this artist's results. Appraisily maintains an auction-price page for Wopfner, and the harness reports 193 associated records, but record count alone does not establish authenticity, quality, market direction, or value. Comparable lots should be filtered by work type, subject, size, date, attribution strength, condition, sale date, and auction venue before any valuation conclusion is drawn.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16319565
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/77113171/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500075572
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wopfner
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/joseph-wopfner/