# Konrad Cramer artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/konrad-cramer/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:11:27.365Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: Modernism
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking, Photography

## About Konrad Cramer

Konrad Cramer (1888–1963) was a German-born American artist identified by international authority records as a painter, printmaker, and photographer. Biographical summaries situate his career across German and American modernist contexts, connecting a European background with activity in the United States. That broad framing is useful for entity matching, but the collected museum pages did not provide usable narrative text, so it should not be expanded into a narrower school or movement claim without stronger scholarship. Collectors may encounter Cramer's name across several object types rather than paintings alone, particularly prints and photographs recorded in authority files. His identity is anchored by corresponding Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, Library of Congress, ISNI, and museum identifiers, which helps separate him from similarly named people. The current source pack does not establish detailed subjects, stylistic phases, or a catalogue raisonné. Object-specific descriptions should therefore rely on the individual work, its inscriptions, and documented cataloguing.

## Common works and media

Authority records associate Cramer with painting, printmaking, and photography. Appraisal searches may therefore surface unique paintings, impressions of prints, or photographic works. The collected evidence does not establish recurring subjects, named print editions, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or a definitive series. Treat any title, date, technique, edition statement, or subject as object-specific until it is supported by a catalogue entry, inscription, provenance record, or comparable sale.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal purposes, first confirm that the work is associated with the same Konrad Cramer represented by the linked authority records. Then compare it with records for the same object type: paintings, prints, and photographs should not be treated as interchangeable markets. Appraisily's artist page provides an auction-record starting point, and dated realized results can be reviewed alongside comparable lots when available. This source pack supports identity and medium as comparison filters, but it does not provide object-level evidence for condition, provenance, edition size, dimensions, or price trends. Those factors should be documented from the work itself, cataloguing, and the relevant sale record before drawing a valuation conclusion. A name match or broad modernist label alone is insufficient to establish attribution or value.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available; gaps in the current evidence are kept explicit.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/18609605/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48620871
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500006402
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Cramer
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Cramer_(Maler)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/konrad-cramer/