# Leo John Meissner artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:15:18.948Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: painting

## About Leo John Meissner

Leo John Meissner was an American painter whose life dates are recorded as 1895–1977. His identity is represented across several established cultural and bibliographic authority systems, including Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, ISNI, MoMA, the National Gallery of Art, the British Museum, RKD, and Art UK. These linked records help distinguish him from similarly named artists and provide a foundation for matching museum, library, and auction references. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with paintings and public sale records, although the collected evidence does not establish particular movements, favored subjects, named series, or a wider range of media. Those details should therefore be verified from the documentation accompanying an individual work rather than inferred from the artist name alone.

## Common works and media

The available sources identify Leo John Meissner as a painter, so paintings are the only work type that can be stated from this source pack with reasonable confidence. The evidence collected here does not substantiate particular subjects, named series, print editions, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, or other media. Any such work presented for appraisal should be assessed from its own cataloguing, physical characteristics, inscriptions, and supporting documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work associated with Leo John Meissner should first confirm that the attribution refers to the American painter recorded under this name in museum and library authority systems. The individual work's documented type and medium should then be compared with relevant public auction records. Appraisily has an artist-level auction-record signal for Meissner, but the collected source pack does not include detailed major-auction-house lot descriptions or enough evidence to characterize price patterns. Conclusions should therefore remain tied to the specific object and to genuinely comparable public sales rather than broad assumptions about the artist's market.

## 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. For Leo John Meissner, the current identity evidence is stronger than the collected biographical and market detail.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52156849
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500050071
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/78562744/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007092169
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000067090267
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/3911
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/107753
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG38056
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.5634.html
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/meissner-leo-18951977