# Oscar Bluemner artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/oscar-bluemner/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:11:15.825Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1867-06-21
- Death date: 1938-01-12
- Nationality: American
- Movements: Modernism
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Oscar Bluemner](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Self-Portrait_%28Bluemner%29.jpg)
Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938) · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Self-Portrait_(Bluemner).jpg

## About Oscar Bluemner

Oscar Bluemner, also identified in authority records as Oscar Florianus Bluemner, was a Prussian-born American painter and architect who lived from 1867 to 1938. Public biographical sources place him within American Modernism, while international authority files establish the identity connection among his name variants and professional roles. He was born Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner and adopted the Oscar Florianus Bluemner form later in life. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with paintings offered through the auction market, but the collected evidence does not establish a dependable breakdown by subject, support, technique, or period. Because his record includes variant spellings and forms of his name, careful entity matching matters when comparing museum, library, and auction references. The present source pack supports his basic identity and Modernist context more strongly than it supports detailed stylistic or market claims.

## Common works and media

The available institutional and authority evidence identifies Bluemner principally as a painter. Paintings are therefore the only common work category supported by this source pack. It does not provide enough item-level evidence to state reliably which painting media, supports, subjects, drawings, prints, editions, or other work types appear most often at auction. Each object should be classified from its own materials, markings, provenance, and cataloguing rather than from the artist directory alone.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily signal indicates a substantial body of auction records associated with Oscar Bluemner, but this source pack does not include the underlying lot descriptions or results needed to characterize his market by medium, date, subject, or price level. A work-specific appraisal should verify authorship or attribution, physical medium and support, dimensions, date, condition, provenance, exhibition or publication history, and any inscriptions or labels. Those facts should then be assessed against genuinely comparable public sales, with attention to sale date and auction-house cataloguing. The presence of an artist's name in an auction directory is not, by itself, evidence of authenticity or current value.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When underlying records are available, analysis may also consider sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots; these inputs support research and appraisal but do not authenticate an object on their own.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215773
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/35254736/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500027801
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Florianus_Bluemner
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Florianus_Bluemner
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/oscar-bluemner/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Self-Portrait_(Bluemner).jpg