# Thomas Theodor Heine artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:42:12.557Z
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## Artist identity

- Nationality: German, Swedish
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Illustration and cartoons, Applied and commercial graphic design

## Portrait

![Thomas Theodor Heine](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Nicola_Perscheid_-_Thomas_Theodor_Heine_1924.jpg)
Nicola Perscheid · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicola_Perscheid_-_Thomas_Theodor_Heine_1924.jpg

## About Thomas Theodor Heine

Thomas Theodor Heine (1867–1948) was a painter, illustrator, cartoonist, draughtsman, commercial graphic artist, writer, and satirist. Born in Leipzig, he studied at the Düsseldorf art academy and briefly at Munich’s Academy of Fine Arts. He became closely associated with caricature and satire through the illustrated weekly Simplicissimus, which the collected biography sources identify him as helping to found. His practice crossed fine art and reproducible graphic work: paintings and drawings sit alongside illustrations, cartoons, and applied graphic design. That range explains why collectors may encounter his name in several cataloguing contexts rather than under one medium. Wikidata describes him as German, while a German-language biography describes him as German-Swedish. Authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, and IdRef agree on his 1867–1948 life years. The available sources are stronger on identity and occupations than on formal art-historical classification, so no movement is assigned here without firmer museum or scholarly evidence.

## Common works and media

Documented work types include paintings, drawings, illustrations, caricatures and cartoons, and applied or commercial graphic design. Heine’s association with Simplicissimus means publication-related material may also appear in catalogues. The source pack does not establish edition practices, favored print techniques, or recurring subjects beyond satire and caricature; those details should be verified for each object.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Heine should begin by identifying whether it is a painting, drawing, illustration, cartoon, or applied graphic work. Publication context may also be relevant, especially when an object is connected to Simplicissimus; cataloguing should distinguish an original work from a reproduced image and record publication information visible on the object. The supplied public pack confirms an Appraisily auction-record page for the artist but provides no accessible major-auction-house catalogue entry from which to infer price levels, trends, scarcity, or medium premiums. A valuation should therefore be grounded in the object’s evidence and compared with relevant public sale records by work type and sale date when those records are available.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine identity research with available auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. For Thomas Theodor Heine, the supplied identity evidence is stronger than the collected market documentation, so object-level and auction-record verification remains important.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216004
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/12526089/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/080620973
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Theodor_Heine
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Theodor_Heine
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Theodor_Heine
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/thomas-theodor-heine/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicola_Perscheid_-_Thomas_Theodor_Heine_1924.jpg