# Walter Ophey artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/walter-ophey/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:46:55.807Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Movements: Rhenish Expressionism
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking and graphic art

## Portrait

![Walter Ophey](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/WalterOphey2.jpg)
"Fotograf war vom Verfasser nicht zu ermitteln" / author stated that he could not determine photographer's identity · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WalterOphey2.jpg

## About Walter Ophey

Walter Ophey (1882–1930) was a German painter and printmaker or graphic artist associated with Rhenish Expressionism. Authority records identify him as a painter and printmaker, while biographical summaries also connect him with the Sonderbund and Young Rhineland artist groups. These affiliations place his work within the network of early twentieth-century modern art in the Rhineland, but the available source pack does not provide a detailed chronology, catalogue raisonné, or museum-level account of individual works. Collectors are most likely to encounter Ophey through paintings and graphic works offered in the secondary market. His name may also appear in authority data as “Ophey, Walter,” while “Walter Hugo Ophey” is the fuller form reported in biographical sources. Because the collected evidence is stronger for identity and broad artistic context than for individual works, object-level appraisal should rely on the work itself, its documentation, and comparable auction records rather than biography alone.

## Common works and media

The collected sources support paintings, prints, and other graphic works as the principal types associated with Walter Ophey. They do not provide enough object-level evidence to identify recurring subjects, named series, edition practices, or a reliable hierarchy of media. Auction and appraisal descriptions should therefore identify each object’s actual medium and work type without assuming undocumented characteristics.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by determining whether an object is a painting, print, or other graphic work and whether it is securely associated with Walter Ophey. The collected pack confirms his identity and broad artistic context, and Appraisily’s artist-page input indicates an existing body of auction records, but it does not include lot-level cataloguing from a major auction house. Comparable records are therefore most useful when the documented work type and medium align closely. Sale dates and realized prices should be read as historical evidence, not as predictions. Any conclusions about condition, provenance, edition, subject, or date require separate object-specific support.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile has strong authority support for identity but limited lot-level market evidence in the collected source pack.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2545701
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500018690
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/20472863/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ophey
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ophey
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ophey
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/walter-ophey/