# Willi Bauer artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:13:54.045Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Common media: Granite

## About Willi Bauer

Authority records identify Willi Bauer as a German sculptor born in 1952. Public-art documentation connects his name with freestanding sculptural installations, including König und Königin on the Rodalben sculpture trail and a two-part granite work titled Ohne Titel, dated 1999. These records indicate an interest in simplified, monumental forms whose arrangements can suggest figures or contrasting physical attitudes without depending on literal representation. No museum biography, estate archive, or scholarly catalogue was present in the collected source material, so a specific movement or school should not be assigned. Collectors may encounter Bauer's name in sculpture listings and in broader auction-index results, but the common name creates a meaningful identification risk. A work should be matched through medium, dimensions, date, signature or inscriptions, provenance, installation history, and photographs before the auction record is treated as evidence for this sculptor.

## Common works and media

The strongest documented examples in the source pack are outdoor or architectural sculpture. They include König und Königin on a sculpture trail and a two-part granite work titled Ohne Titel from 1999. The Appraisily auction index also groups name-matched lots under sculpture and mixed media, decorative art and editions, and broader fine-art categories. Those broader categories should not be treated as a definitive catalogue of this sculptor's production without checking each object's signature, medium, provenance, and imagery for a secure identity match.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with comparables that match the object's medium, dimensions, date, condition, and attribution rather than with the artist name alone. Signature and inscription details, restoration history, provenance, exhibition or public-installation records, and any edition information can materially affect comparison quality. The collected auction index places name-matched results in several broad categories, while authority sources describe Bauer specifically as a sculptor. That difference makes lot-level identity review especially important. Public realized prices can provide context when the maker and work type are securely matched, but incomplete feeds, private transactions, reporting conventions, and later attribution changes limit what an index alone can establish.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Name matches remain subject to attribution and identity review.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29350811
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/81384684/
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/137154070
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/willi-bauer/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bauer-1999-Ohne_Titel-1466_7_8.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rodalben-Willi_Bauer-Koenig_und_Koenigin-01-gje.jpg