# Rob Scholte artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/rob-scholte/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:36:56.795Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Dutch
- Movements: Contemporary art
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture, Installation, Collage

## Portrait

![Rob Scholte](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Rob_scholte_incubate_2010.jpg/1280px-Rob_scholte_incubate_2010.jpg)
Sebastiaan ter Burg · CC BY-SA 2.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rob_scholte_incubate_2010.jpg

## About Rob Scholte

Rob Scholte, born in 1958, is a Dutch contemporary artist whose practice draws on images already circulating through mass media and art history. He studied at Amsterdam's Gerrit Rietveld Academie from 1977 to 1982. Public sources describe a multidisciplinary body of work encompassing painting, sculpture, installation, and collage. Reproduction is central to this practice: rather than treating every image as an isolated invention, Scholte revisits recognizable visual material and places it in a new artistic context. This relationship with existing imagery situates his work within broader contemporary discussions about copying, authorship, recognition, and the movement of pictures between cultural settings. Collectors and cataloguers may consequently encounter his name attached to several kinds of objects rather than a single medium. Identity matching is aided by records maintained by Wikidata and multiple international authority systems, although several of those authority pages could not be fully retrieved for this research pack.

## Common works and media

Public sources characterize Scholte's practice through painting, sculpture, installation, and collage, with recurring use of images derived from mass media and art history. Auction and appraisal candidates may therefore differ substantially in format and construction. The collected evidence does not establish a reliable breakdown by medium or confirm recurring editions, prints, posters, drawings, or ceramics, so those categories should be assessed from the individual object's documentation rather than assumed.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by identifying the work type and determining how closely it corresponds to Scholte's documented practice. The available sources support painting, sculpture, installation, and collage, as well as the reuse of imagery associated with mass media and art history. Comparisons are most useful when they involve a similar medium, subject, format, and period. Public auction records can provide sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those details are available, but they should not be treated as automatic forecasts. This source pack identifies an Appraisily auction-price page but supplies no lot-level provenance, condition, dimensions, edition information, or price history, so it cannot support a market trend or a specific valuation conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2316873
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Scholte
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Scholte
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Scholte
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500053998
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93028628
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/70897
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/rob-scholte/