# Karl (1898) Kluth artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:45:38.759Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Movements: Hamburg Secession (member)
- Common media: Painting

## About Karl (1898) Kluth

Karl Kluth (1898–1972) was a German painter associated with Hamburg's twentieth-century artistic community. Authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty align the name Karl Kluth with this German artist. He belonged to the Hamburger Künstlerverein, the Hamburgische Künstlerschaft, and the Hamburg Secession. His working life continued through the National Socialist period and was interrupted by military service and Soviet captivity; he returned in 1949. In 1950, Kluth joined the boards of the Deutscher Künstlerbund and Hamburger Künstlerverein and entered Hamburg's Freie Akademie der Künste. Two years later, he became a professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings and in broad auction fine-art listings. The available source pack establishes his identity, institutional affiliations, and teaching career but does not securely document particular subjects, named series, or a more specific stylistic classification, so those details should be evaluated work by work.

## Common works and media

The source pack securely identifies Kluth as a painter, making paintings the best-supported work type for identity matching and appraisal research. The collected Appraisily page also lists works on paper and prints as an auction grouping, but it does not provide enough artist-specific evidence to establish their frequency. No reliable subjects, named series, sculpture practice, ceramic production, or edition history are documented in the pack. Medium, support, technique, dimensions, signature, inscriptions, and date should be recorded directly from each object rather than inferred from broad auction categories.

## Market and appraisal context

A Karl Kluth appraisal should begin by confirming that the object belongs to the German painter born in 1898, rather than relying on a name match alone. Relevant comparisons should align in medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration history, signature or inscriptions, provenance, exhibition history, and attribution strength. Comparable public sales are most informative when the works are genuinely similar. The collected Appraisily page is internally inconsistent: one section mentions five tracked lots and a median result, while its later metadata reports no matched or priced records. Those counts and price statistics should therefore be reconciled before they are used as market evidence. Private transactions and incomplete auction feeds may also limit the visible record.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity records with matched auction data, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Karl Kluth, current auction-count inconsistencies require reconciliation before price statistics are treated as dependable.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1731951
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/27863319/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500343037
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kluth
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/karl-1898-kluth/