# Max Oppenheimer artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:55:46.368Z
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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1885-07-01
- Death date: 1954-05-19
- Nationality: Austrian
- Common media: Painting, Graphic art, Oil on canvas

## Portrait

![Max Oppenheimer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Egon_Schiele_-_Der_Maler_Max_Oppenheimer_-_1910.jpeg/1280px-Egon_Schiele_-_Der_Maler_Max_Oppenheimer_-_1910.jpeg)
Egon Schiele · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egon_Schiele_-_Der_Maler_Max_Oppenheimer_-_1910.jpeg

## About Max Oppenheimer

Max Oppenheimer (1885–1954), also known as MOPP, was an Austrian Jewish painter and graphic artist. Public authority files identify him under Max Oppenheimer and the variant Maximilian Oppenheimer, while museum and library indexes provide stable records for matching his identity. Collectors may encounter paintings, portraits, and graphic works associated with his name. Titles surfaced in authority data include portraits, Surgery, Die Philharmoniker, and a Baltic landing stage, indicating subject matter that ranged from human figures and professional activity to music and landscape. A painted portrait of Oppenheimer by Egon Schiele and Oppenheimer’s own self-portrait provide documented likenesses. The collected evidence is strong for his identity and life years but thinner for a precise movement label or complete artistic chronology. Cataloguing should therefore distinguish documented facts from broader stylistic assumptions and examine the name form, date, medium, dimensions, and ownership history attached to each work.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter paintings and graphic works by or attributed to Max Oppenheimer. Portraiture is represented in authority-linked titles, alongside works concerning musicians and orchestral performance, surgery, and coastal landscape. Oil on canvas is documented for Oppenheimer’s self-portrait. Because the collected evidence does not establish a complete catalogue of media or editions, cataloguers should confirm the technique and support from the physical object, inscriptions, labels, provenance documents, and a reliable specialist or institutional record.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Max Oppenheimer should begin with the object’s medium, support, dimensions, date, subject, and attribution history. Portraits, musical or orchestral subjects, surgical scenes, and landscapes appear among titles linked through authority data, so comparable sales should be selected by closely related work type and subject rather than by artist name alone. Provenance can be especially consequential: the documented history of Oppenheimer’s self-portrait includes wartime theft and later restitution. The source pack provides an Appraisily auction-record signal but no fetched major-auction-house lot descriptions, so it does not justify a price trend, record-price claim, or unsupported forecast. Current appraisal should use verified individual lots, their sale dates, realized prices, condition information, and attribution language.

## 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. Claims remain limited to the evidence collected for the artist and the documentation attached to each work.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216480
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/153383836
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/52484674/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Oppenheimer_(artist)
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Oppenheimer
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/4073
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/max-oppenheimer/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egon_Schiele_-_Der_Maler_Max_Oppenheimer_-_1910.jpeg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Max_Oppenheimer_Selbstportr%C3%A4t_c1933.jpg