# Karl Reichert artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/karl-reichert/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:01:07.905Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1836-08-27
- Death date: 1918-04-05
- Nationality: Austrian
- Common media: Painting, Lithography

## Portrait

![Karl Reichert](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Reichert%2C_Carl_-_Heliogravure_Graz%2C_Leykam_1865.jpg/1280px-Reichert%2C_Carl_-_Heliogravure_Graz%2C_Leykam_1865.jpg)
published by C. Reichert, Graz, Scan and postprocessing by Hubertl · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reichert,_Carl_-_Heliogravure_Graz,_Leykam_1865.jpg

## About Karl Reichert

Karl Reichert, also catalogued as Carl Reichert (1836–1918), was an Austrian painter and lithographer best known for animal and landscape subjects. Authority records connect the Karl and Carl forms, while biographical sources also record J. Hartung as a working pseudonym. Born in Vienna and later dying in Graz, Reichert worked across painting and lithography, with animals and landscapes forming the clearest documented strands of his output. He is better described through these genres and media than through a named art movement, since the collected sources do not establish a specific movement affiliation. Collectors may encounter his work under variant catalogue headings, making identity matching especially important. Appraisily groups auction information under the public artist identity while retaining authority links that help distinguish Reichert from similarly named artists and connect works catalogued as Karl Reichert, Carl Reichert, or J. Hartung.

## Common works and media

Works most plausibly encountered in auction and appraisal contexts are animal paintings, landscape paintings, and lithographs. Catalogue searches should account for both Karl Reichert and Carl Reichert, with J. Hartung treated as a documented pseudonym that still requires object-specific attribution evidence. The collected sources do not establish a particular named series or art movement.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work associated with Reichert should begin by resolving the artist name, since authority and biographical records use both Karl and Carl Reichert, and some sources record the pseudonym J. Hartung. The next useful comparison is by object type and subject: paintings should be compared with paintings, lithographs with lithographs, and animal subjects with closely related animal works rather than with landscapes indiscriminately. The collected source pack does not expose object-level sale descriptions, condition reports, provenance, dimensions, or realized prices. Those details therefore require examination of the individual object and comparison with relevant public auction lots before any valuation conclusion is reached.

## 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. Identity and market evidence are kept distinct so that authority matching does not substitute for object-specific appraisal research.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15791085
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/3263418/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500011426
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Reichert_(Maler)
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Reichert
- Wikipedia: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%92%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/karl-reichert/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reichert,_Carl_-_Heliogravure_Graz,_Leykam_1865.jpg