# Richard-Karl Karlovic Zommer artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:30:45.163Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Watercolor, Painting

## About Richard-Karl Karlovic Zommer

Richard-Karl Karlovic Zommer (1866–1939) is identified by Wikidata as a painter. Multilingual Wikipedia entries describe him as a Russian artist, while one also notes British origin; because the collected authority excerpts do not resolve nationality, that detail remains unassigned here. Secondary sources associate his practice with Orientalist, realist, and impressionist contexts, but those labels still require confirmation from a museum or scholarly source. He worked in watercolor as well as painting more broadly and is described as a landscape painter, ethnographic genre painter, and portraitist. Central Asian travel supplied subjects for watercolors, while architectural scenes, landscapes, figures, and portraits also appear in the collected material. Collectors may therefore encounter his name attached to Central Asian views, architectural compositions, genre scenes, portraits, and watercolors. Identifiers from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, GND, ISNI, and RKD help distinguish him across catalogues despite variant renderings of his name.

## Common works and media

The collected sources most clearly point to watercolors based on Central Asian travel, along with landscapes, ethnographic genre scenes, portraits, and architectural views. One secondary source identifies a view of the Shir-Dor Mosque in Samarkand as an auctioned composition. The pack does not establish editions, prints, sculpture, ceramics, or posters, so those categories should not be assumed without work-specific evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by resolving the artist's variant name forms and documenting the work's medium, dimensions, subject, location, date, signature, inscriptions, condition, and provenance. The collected sources associate Zommer with watercolor, landscape, ethnographic genre, portrait, and Central Asian architectural subjects, making close subject and medium matching especially relevant when selecting comparable lots. One secondary source mentions a 2006 Sotheby's London sale involving a Samarkand mosque scene, but the source pack does not include the original lot page or readable realized-price evidence. Any market conclusion should therefore rely on verified auction records matched by medium, size, subject, date, condition, attribution, and sale context rather than on an unsupported price trend.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9069126
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500183295
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/146490606/
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1071834681
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000098758637
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/123088
- Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Zommer
- Wikipedia: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Zommer
- Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4-%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/richard-karl-karlovic-zommer/