# Otto Greiner artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-05-26T12:12:19.738Z
Quality: high confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Common media: painting, printmaking, drawing, lithography

## About Otto Greiner

Otto Greiner (1869-1916) was a German painter, graphic artist, draftsman, and lithographer whose career spanned the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Active during a period of significant transition in German art, Greiner worked across painting and print media, producing oil paintings, drawings, and lithographs. His practice as both a painter and a graphic artist placed him within the broader tradition of German fine-art printmaking that gained prominence in the decades before the First World War. Greiner's identity is well established across multiple international authority files, including the Getty Union List of Artist Names, the Virtual International Authority File, and the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History.

## Common works and media

Otto Greiner is known to have worked in oil painting, drawing, and lithography. Prints and graphic works, including lithographs, form a significant portion of his documented output. Collectors may encounter his work as original drawings, paintings on canvas or panel, and editioned lithographic prints. Subject matter and edition details should be verified on a per-work basis, as the collected sources do not enumerate specific series or recurring themes.

## Market and appraisal context

Otto Greiner's work appears in auction contexts primarily as prints, drawings, and oil paintings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century German school. When appraising a Greiner work, key factors include the medium (oil, lithograph, or drawing), the condition and provenance of the piece, the quality of impression for prints, and whether the work can be securely attributed to his documented output. Collectors should note that without specific auction comparables in the current dataset, valuation relies on general market context for German graphic art of this period. Provenance documentation and expert attribution are particularly important for works outside well-documented public collections.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine identity research from international authority files and scholarly sources with auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Otto Greiner, identity data is grounded in the Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, the Library of Congress Name Authority File, and the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315401
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Greiner
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500019150
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/76589374/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96023795
- RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/33666