# Raimund Girke artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/raimund-girke/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:12:21.263Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1930-10-28
- Death date: 2002-06-12
- Nationality: German
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper, Drawing

## About Raimund Girke

Raimund Girke (1930–2002) was a German painter and professor. Library and authority records consistently identify him as a painter, while the collected German biographical source also records his teaching title. The available institutional bibliography gives the clearest view of the work collectors may encounter: exhibition and catalogue records document paintings, works on paper, and drawings, including museum presentations in Dortmund, Ludwigshafen, and Leverkusen. A discovery-only source calls Girke a minimalist, but the collected pack does not contain museum, estate, or scholarly evidence strong enough to assign that movement confidently. Appraisily also maintains an auction-price page for works catalogued under his name. Accordingly, this profile treats Girke as a securely identified German artist while keeping claims about movement, recurring subjects, named series, and stylistic development deliberately limited until stronger sources are added.

## Common works and media

Girke is securely documented as a painter. Institutional bibliographic records also identify exhibitions and catalogues devoted to his works on paper and drawings. These are the principal work types supported by the collected evidence. The source pack does not substantiate recurring subjects or the production of sculpture, ceramics, posters, prints, or editioned works, so those categories should be assessed only when object-specific documentation is available.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s public artist page establishes that auction-price records are associated with Raimund Girke, but the collected source pack does not expose the underlying lot descriptions or sale results. No price trend or relative premium is therefore asserted here. An appraisal should compare the object with public records that match its catalogued work type, such as a painting, drawing, or other work on paper. The object’s date, dimensions, materials, condition, provenance, attribution wording, and sale context must be verified from the object and relevant auction records because those details are not supplied by the present research pack. Edition-based analysis should not be assumed without additional evidence.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Claims are limited when the collected sources do not provide object-level or market-level evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1732997
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500063620
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96115511/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/167796666
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimund_Girke
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimund_Girke
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/raimund-girke/