# Marwan artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/marwan/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:34:08.352Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1934-01-31
- Death date: 2016-10-22
- Nationality: Syrian, German
- Movements: German Expressionist context, Neue Wilde context
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Marwan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Marwan_2012.jpg/1280px-Marwan_2012.jpg)
Dietmar Bührer ( de:Dietmar Bührer ) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marwan_2012.jpg

## About Marwan

Marwan, the professional name of Marwan Kassab-Bachi (1934–2016), was a Syrian-born painter whose life and career became closely connected with Berlin. Born in Damascus, he undertook early university study there before moving to Germany for art training and later teaching. Public authority and museum profiles identify him under both Marwan and his full name, an important distinction when matching auction records. His painting is discussed in relation to German Expressionism and the Neue Wilde milieu, although the collected evidence more securely supports influence and context than formal movement membership. Faces and landscapes recur in descriptions of his work, with layered color and texture contributing to psychologically charged images. Collectors may encounter works under the single name Marwan, the full surname Kassab-Bachi, or spelling variants such as Kassab Baschi and Kassab Bachi. Those variations make careful entity matching especially important in appraisal and auction research.

## Common works and media

The collected sources most clearly support paintings, particularly works concerned with human faces and landscapes. They do not establish a reliable hierarchy among oils, works on paper, prints, drawings, or other formats. The precise medium, date, and status of an individual object should therefore come from direct examination and dependable catalog documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

Market research should begin by confirming that a work attributed simply to “Marwan” belongs to Marwan Kassab-Bachi. The available source pack indicates a substantial set of Appraisily auction records, but it does not expose the detailed lot evidence needed to characterize price levels or trends. After identity is resolved, comparisons should prioritize records that align with the documented practice of painting faces or landscapes and that provide usable sale dates and realized prices. Object-level evidence remains essential: cataloguing, inscriptions, provenance, condition, dimensions, and medium should be verified from the work and its documentation rather than inferred from the artist name. A credible appraisal therefore depends on selecting genuinely comparable lots, not on the record count alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When detailed records are available, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots are evaluated alongside the identity and characteristics of the work.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103438
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/marwan-14609
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500373117
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/29542595/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82116317
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG205198
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwan_Kassab-Bachi
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwan_Kassab-Bachi
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwan_Kassab_Bachi
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/marwan/