# Samuel Mützner artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/samuel-mutzner/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:48:56.802Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1884-12-13
- Death date: 1959-10-02
- Nationality: Romanian
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Samuel Mützner](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Samuel_Mutzner.jpg)
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Mutzner.jpg

## About Samuel Mützner

Samuel Mützner (1884–1959) was a Romanian painter born and deceased in Bucharest. A Romanian-language source also records the alternate form Samys Mützner and places him in the context of interwar Romanian art. The collected evidence is strongest for identity rather than a detailed account of his training, stylistic affiliations, subjects, or chronology: Wikidata and Getty ULAN provide stable entity links, while the available biographical extracts corroborate his life dates and occupation. Collectors may encounter his name through paintings and auction records indexed under variant spellings, including forms written without the umlaut. Appraisily’s source input associates this artist page with 244 records, making careful name reconciliation important, but the present research packet does not expose the individual lot descriptions. This profile therefore does not assign Mützner to a specific movement or claim recurring subjects that the collected sources do not establish.

## Common works and media

The collected evidence identifies Mützner as a painter, so paintings are the only work type this profile can name with confidence. The source excerpts do not establish recurring subjects, named series, print editions, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, or a preferred painting medium. Those categories should remain unassigned until museum, catalogue, or lot-level evidence is available.

## Market and appraisal context

The source pack establishes an auction-record signal for Samuel Mützner but does not include the underlying lot catalogue text, sale dates, realized prices, or comparable-lot details. It therefore supports only a broad paintings category and cannot establish a price range, trend, or hierarchy of subjects and periods. Appraisal research should begin by reconciling the artist identity across accented, unaccented, and alternate name forms, then consult individual public auction records associated with that identity when they are available. Any valuation conclusion should rest on the actual record fields and evidence for the specific object, not on the aggregate count of 244 associated records alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile separates supported identity data from market details absent from the collected source pack.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3471195
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500168550
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_M%C3%BCtzner
- Wikipedia: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_M%C3%BCtzner
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018032249
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1078047758
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000443669361
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/133843
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/311793903/
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/140628292/