# Kjell Engman artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/kjell-engman/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:24:32.624Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1946-06-03
- Nationality: Swedish
- Common media: Glass, Functional and art glass

## Portrait

![Kjell Engman](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Kjell_Engman.jpg/1280px-Kjell_Engman.jpg)
Bengt Oberger · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kjell_Engman.jpg

## About Kjell Engman

Kjell Engman, born in Stockholm in 1946, is a Swedish glass artist and designer. Library and entity authority records consistently identify him with Swedish glass design, while Swedish biographical material gives his full name as Kjell Lennart Engman. Collectors commonly encounter his work through his long association with Kosta Boda, for which he has designed functional and art-glass objects since 1978. That relationship places Engman within the modern Swedish glassmaking context, although the collected sources do not establish a specific formal movement or school. His public identity is supported by Wikidata and VIAF authority records, with additional identifiers linked to the Library of Congress and ISNI. In appraisal and auction settings, careful identification should distinguish an object attributed to Engman from a broadly similar piece of Scandinavian glass and should document any manufacturer association visible in the available evidence.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter Kjell Engman’s work as functional glass or as art-glass objects, particularly pieces associated with Kosta Boda. The collected sources support glass as his principal medium but do not provide enough detail to assert specific recurring subjects, named series, edition structures, or production techniques. Identification should therefore rely on evidence attached to the individual object rather than assumptions based on appearance alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Kjell Engman’s market context centers on glass objects encountered as either functional design or art glass. Appraisal begins with a defensible attribution and, where applicable, evidence connecting the object to Kosta Boda production. The object category should then guide the choice of comparable auction records: functional glass and art-glass objects may not provide equally relevant comparisons. Sale dates, realized prices, and closely comparable lots can provide market context when public records are available, but the collected pack did not expose individual lot results or support a price trend. Consequently, no estimate should be inferred from the artist’s name alone.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47080470
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/39311650/
- Wikipedia: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjell_Engman
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjell_Engman
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2002014383
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000053083349
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/kjell-engman/