# Theomeier artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/theomeier/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:50:58.363Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Swiss
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Theomeier](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/COLLECTIE_TROPENMUSEUM_Portret_van_de_Zwitserse_schilder_Theo_Meier_Iseh_TMnr_60030324.jpg)
P. (Paul) Spies (Fotograaf/photographer). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:COLLECTIE_TROPENMUSEUM_Portret_van_de_Zwitserse_schilder_Theo_Meier_Iseh_TMnr_60030324.jpg

## About Theomeier

Theo Meier (1908–1982) was a Swiss painter whose career was spent largely in Bali and Thailand. Library authority records establish the spaced name “Theo Meier,” while Appraisily’s inherited auction-directory label appears as “Theomeier”; this page connects those forms without treating the compressed label as a separate artist. IdRef also identifies him as an artist and specialist in Indonesia, helping establish the Southeast Asian context found in public biographical summaries. The collected source pack does not establish a named movement, school, exact birth or death date, or detailed chronology, so those points remain open rather than inferred. Collectors are likely to encounter Meier through paintings and auction records cataloged under variants of his name. For entity matching, the strongest anchors are his 1908–1982 life dates and the authority identifiers supplied by Wikidata, VIAF, IdRef, and the Library of Congress record linked through VIAF.

## Common works and media

The public sources consistently identify Theo Meier as a painter, making paintings the only work type this pack can support with confidence. It does not document a reliable breakdown of oil paintings, works on paper, prints, sculptures, editions, posters, or recurring subjects. Auction listings should therefore be classified from their own catalog descriptions and images rather than assigned a medium or theme from this identity profile alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s collected input associates 337 auction-directory records with the compressed label “Theomeier,” while library authorities identify the person as Theo Meier (1908–1982). That count is an inventory signal, not evidence of a price level or trend. The source pack contains no lot descriptions or realized-price table, so it cannot support claims about leading subjects, date ranges, rarity, or relative performance. A defensible appraisal should first resolve the artist identity, then use comparable public sales for works with matching medium, dimensions, date, attribution, condition, provenance, and sale timing when those details are available. Conclusions should remain provisional until the relevant record-level evidence has been reviewed.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When record-level evidence is available, appraisal research may also consider sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots; this source pack currently supports identity more strongly than market analysis.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14752144
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/2963544/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/137840683
- Wikipedia: https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Meier
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Meier
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/theomeier/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:COLLECTIE_TROPENMUSEUM_Portret_van_de_Zwitserse_schilder_Theo_Meier_Iseh_TMnr_60030324.jpg