# Rudolf Koller artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/rudolf-koller/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:29:20.097Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1828-05-21
- Death date: 1905-01-05
- Nationality: Swiss
- Movements: Realism, Classicism, Düsseldorf school of painting, Plein-air landscape tradition
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints

## Portrait

![Rudolf Koller](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Rudolfkoller.jpg)
Rudolf Ganz · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rudolfkoller.jpg

## About Rudolf Koller

Rudolf Koller (1828–1905) was a Swiss painter, also identified as Johann Rudolf Koller, whose reputation rests chiefly on animal painting and carefully observed landscape. Public biographical sources associate him with Realism and Classicism as well as the Düsseldorf school of painting, while also connecting his landscapes with plein-air practice. Animals and Swiss mountain settings are central to the body of work described in the available sources. His best-known title in the collected material is The Gotthard Post, or Gotthardpost. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter Koller through nineteenth-century paintings in which animal study and landscape composition carry comparable importance. Auction databases may also place records in broader categories such as works on paper, prints, editions, or mixed media, but those labels should be checked against the individual lot. For reliable entity matching, the fuller name Johann Rudolf Koller should be considered alongside Rudolf Koller.

## Common works and media

The strongest source support is for paintings centered on animals and Swiss mountain landscapes. The Gotthard Post is the best-known named work in the collected material. Appraisily's auction index also groups some records under works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. These are broad market classifications, so the medium, support, technique, date, and attribution of each object should be verified from its individual lot record before it is treated as a useful comparable.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with closely comparable works rather than a page-wide median or an isolated high result. The available Appraisily index contains matched public-auction records spanning 2003–2026, but its record totals and broad category labels are not substitutes for lot-level review. For a Koller work, relevant comparisons should consider medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, attribution wording, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references. Animal subjects and Swiss landscapes should be compared with works of similar scale and type. Realized prices may use different fee treatments, while private sales and incomplete feeds may be absent. Authentication and condition can materially change the usefulness of any comparable sale.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123734
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Koller
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Koller
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Koller
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15054318r
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/rudolf-koller/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rudolfkoller.jpg