# Knud Kyhn artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:59:14.129Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Danish
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Ceramic sculpture

## About Knud Kyhn

Knud Carl Edvard Kyhn (1880–1969) was a Danish painter, draughtsman, and ceramic sculptor. Public authority records in Wikidata and VIAF confirm the identity and life years associated with Knud Kyhn, while Getty ULAN and RKD provide additional stable identifiers for entity matching. The Danish biographical source describes a practice extending across painting, drawing, and ceramic sculpture. Collectors therefore may encounter his name on both two-dimensional artworks and modeled ceramic objects rather than within a single auction category. Appraisily’s matched records likewise place Kyhn-related lots across fine art, works on paper, sculpture, and decorative art. This breadth makes medium, date, inscriptions, and attribution especially important when distinguishing comparable objects. The available source pack does not establish a specific movement, school, recurring subject, or named series, so those labels should not be inferred without stronger museum or scholarly documentation.

## Common works and media

The collected biographical sources identify painting, drawing, and ceramic sculpture as parts of Kyhn’s practice. Appraisily’s auction index also surfaces broad categories including works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. These categories are useful for discovery, but they do not establish the authorship, date, medium, or edition status of an individual object. Those details should be verified from the work, its markings, documentation, condition, and provenance before selecting comparable sales.

## Market and appraisal context

Knud Kyhn’s market should be assessed through object-level comparisons rather than a single headline result. Appraisily’s auction index groups matched lots across paintings, works on paper, sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions. Relevant comparisons should align as closely as possible in medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, attribution, and edition status. Signatures, inscriptions, restoration, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references may also affect how confidently a lot can be compared. Public realized prices provide useful evidence, but they may include different fee treatments and do not capture every private transaction or later attribution change. A qualified appraisal should reconcile the object itself with recent, genuinely comparable public sales.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12322324
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/156149106024268490835/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500194340
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/464179
- Wikipedia: https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knud_Kyhn
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/knud-kyhn/