# Max Laeuger artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1864-09-30
- Death date: 1952-12-12
- Nationality: German
- Movements: Jugendstil / Art Nouveau
- Common media: ceramics, architecture, landscape and garden design, interior design

## About Max Laeuger

Max Laeuger (1864–1952), born Maximilian Joseph Laeuger in Lörrach, Germany, was a German architect, ceramicist, landscape designer, and educator whose work bridged Art Nouveau and early modernist decorative arts. He trained in painting and interior architecture at the Kunstgewerbeschule Karlsruhe and at the Académie Julian in Paris. From 1898 to 1933 he served as professor of interior architecture and garden design at the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe, shaping a generation of German designers. His ceramic and decorative work earned international recognition at the Paris World Exhibition of 1900 and the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Today his ceramics are held in museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Collectors most frequently encounter Laeuger's work through his distinctive decorative ceramics in the Jugendstil style.

## Common works and media

Laeuger is most commonly encountered at auction as a ceramicist. Typical lots include Art Nouveau–style vases, bowls, plates, and decorative tiles, often with organic Jugendstil forms and stylized botanical or geometric ornament. He also produced architectural ceramics, interior design elements, and garden-design drawings. In addition to ceramics, his legacy includes landscape and garden commissions, though these appear far less frequently on the secondary market.

## Market and appraisal context

Max Laeuger's auction presence is dominated by his decorative ceramics, especially vases, bowls, and tiles produced in a Jugendstil aesthetic. Value depends heavily on the specific form, glaze quality, condition, and whether the piece carries a clear maker's mark or documented provenance. Works from his peak period around 1895–1910 tend to attract the strongest interest. As with many decorative-arts figures, attribution of unsigned pieces requires specialist examination, and collectors should verify provenance carefully.

## 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 Max Laeuger, identity and biographical data are grounded in authority files from Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, and museum records from MoMA.

## Sources

- RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/302216
- VIAF (OCLC): https://viaf.org/viaf/35251439/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84078504
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/65507
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500240610
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85834