# Martin E. Philipp artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/martin-e-philipp/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:21:35.487Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1887-08-04
- Death date: 1978-11-01
- Nationality: German
- Common media: Painting, Graphic art

## About Martin E. Philipp

Martin E. Philipp is an authority-file form of Martin Erich Philipp (1887–1978), a German painter and graphic artist. Library authority records also index him as M. E. Philipp, while a German-language biographical record notes the initials MEPH. The alignment between Wikidata and VIAF provides a useful identity anchor for cataloguing and entity matching. The collected sources do not establish a specific movement, school, recurring subject, technique, or named series, so those details should not be inferred. Collectors may encounter Philipp’s name on paintings, graphic works, and catalogue records that shorten his given names to initials. For appraisal research, the principal value of this profile is disambiguation: separating records for this German artist from unrelated people and keeping variant name forms connected. Further object-level research is needed to identify medium, date, subject, and authorship for any specific work.

## Common works and media

Available authority and biographical sources support only broad categories: paintings and graphic works. They do not establish whether a particular object is an oil, watercolor, drawing, print, poster, or editioned work, and they provide no recurring subject list. Catalogue entries should therefore use the object’s own documented medium and description rather than extrapolating from artist-level data.

## Market and appraisal context

Valuation begins with confirming that the catalogue identity matches Martin Erich Philipp, since records may use Martin E. Philipp, M. E. Philipp, or MEPH. The collected sources support only the broad categories of painting and graphic art; they do not identify particular techniques, editions, subjects, or named series. Comparisons should therefore remain within the same documented work category and use public lots whose attribution and artist identity align. When Appraisily records are available, sale dates, realized prices, and closely comparable lots can provide market context. This source pack, however, contains no accessible major-auction-house results source and supports no conclusion about price trends. A work-specific appraisal requires evidence beyond this artist-level identity profile.

## 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 Martin E. Philipp, the current public source pack provides stronger identity evidence than object-specific or market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1395674
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/13104543/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008050878
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Erich_Philipp
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Erich_Philipp
- Wikipedia: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86_%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/martin-e-philipp/