German, 1865–1943
Otto Modersohn
166results on record
87%sell-through
$15,065median result (USD, incl. premium; 94% observed, 6% estimated from hammer)
$152,100record in our coverage
Drawn from 166 recorded results (156 sold · 10 passed) across 10 auction houses, 2003–2026. What we cover
Median sold price by year typical estimate range median result USD, incl. premium; 94% observed, 6% estimated from hammer method · log scale
Where does a value land in this market?
The same figure also answers the seller's question: which house clears a work like this, and for how much — expected proceeds by house, from the sell-through the rest of this page is built on.
Every sold result for this market, low to high (log scale) — the dashed line is the median. Enter a value to see where it lands.
By medium where medium is recorded or stated in the catalog line
| Medium | Results | Sell-through | Median result (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| painting | 79 | 100% | $14,689 |
| works on paper | 8 | 100% | $1,346 |
Medium is recorded for 87 of 166 results (52%) — rows above cover that subset; the rest of the record is in the full ledger below.
Compared with Pablo Picasso Otto Modersohn Pablo Picasso
| Metric | Otto Modersohn | Pablo Picasso |
|---|---|---|
| Median result | $15,065 | $10,507 |
| Record price | $152,100 | $179,365,000 |
| Results on record | 166 | 29,706 |
| Years active at auction | 2003–2026 | 1998–2026 |
Related artists: Pablo PicassoLyonel FeiningerEmil NoldeKarl Schmidt-rottluff
Market strength liquidity score, 0–100 · method
80/ 100
- Sell-through87%
- Meets estimate60%
- Market depth166 results
How readily and near-estimate this market clears — sell-through, estimate reliability, and depth, blended into one score. "Meets estimate" is the share of sold lots hammering at or above the low estimate, over catalogs that print a real appraisal: a house whose printed low is a starting bid would meet its estimate on every lot, so those lots are excluded from this term only — their prices and outcomes still count in the other two. Method →
Where this artist sells best
| House | Results | Sell-through | Median | vs. estimate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lempertz | 53 | 92% | $19,218 | — |
| Grisebach | 49 | — | $13,371 | — |
| Ketterer Kunst | 29 | — | $16,910 | — |
| Historia Auktionshaus | 9 | 100% | $1,445 | — |
| Dorotheum | 11 | 73% | $14,921 | — |
| Sotheby's | 10 | 57% | $10,805 | 0.89× |
| Christie's | 2 | — | $39,610 | — |
| Koller | 1 | — | $15,441 | — |
| Strauss & Co | 1 | 100% | $32,145 | 1.20× |
| VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH Co. KG | 1 | 100% | $9,224 | 0.70× |
The same artist across every house we cover — hammer-vs-estimate side by side. A dash in the estimate column can mean withheld rather than unpublished: the house publishes no hammer price, or its printed low is a starting bid rather than an appraisal. Method →
Prices realized 166 recorded lots — sold, passed, and upcoming — results in USD incl. premium; est. marks a premium estimated from the house's schedule ✓ Includes 10 passed lots
| Date | Lot | Medium | vs. estimate | Estimate USD | Result USD, incl. premium | House |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 2026·06 | promine | — | Historia Auktionshaus | |||
| 2026·06 | Bauerngarten in der Abendsonne | $10,476–$13,968 | Lempertz | |||
| 2026·06 | Sturm im Moor | $10,476–$13,968 | Lempertz | |||
| 2026·06 | Tulpen | $6,984–$9,312 | Lempertz | |||
| 2026·06 | Abend im Moor | $8,148–$10,476 | Lempertz | |||
| 2026·06 | Blütenbäume hinter Frau Windisch mit unserem Haus | $10,476–$13,968 | Lempertz | |||
| 2026·01 | Worpswede | — | Historia Auktionshaus | |||
| 2026·01 | Worpswede | — | Historia Auktionshaus | |||
| 2026·01 | Landscape | — | Historia Auktionshaus | |||
| 2026·01 | Landscape | — | Historia Auktionshaus | |||
| 2025·12 | Vorfrühling (Anemonen) (Early Spring (Anemones)) | $69,804–$93,072 | Sotheby's | |||
| 2025·12 | Frühling in den Wümmewiesen - Büsche und Bäume hinter Brelings | $10,480–$13,974 | Lempertz | |||
| 2025·11 | „Herbstlandschaft im Teufelsmoor“. 1933 | Oil on canvas | $13,879–$17,349 | Grisebach | ||
| 2025·11 | [no title recorded] | — | Dorotheum | |||
| 2025·11 | (attrib.) | — | Historia Auktionshaus | |||
| 2025·11 | Moorlandschaft mit Kanal. Um 1936 | Chalk on brownish paper | $1,040–$1,387 | Grisebach | ||
| 2025·11 | Moorlandschaft mit Gehöft. Um 1940 | Chalk on brownish laid paper (back of the title page of the art magazine "Atlantis" from 1939) | $1,040–$1,387 | Grisebach | ||
| 2025·10 | Spring | oil on canvas laid down on board | $17,391–$28,985 | Strauss & Co | ||
| 2025·06 | Herbst in Fischerhude / Frühling in der Surheide. Um 1925/1928 | Oil on canvas (two-sided) | $11,411–$17,116 | Grisebach | ||
| 2025·05 | Sommerabend in der Surheide | $11,339–$17,008 | Lempertz | |||
| 2025·05 | Herbstwetter | $20,410–$24,946 | Lempertz | |||
| 2025·05 | Die Wümme | $7,937–$10,205 | Lempertz | |||
| 2025·05 | Mondaufgang im Moor. Rückseitig Fuchsheide - blühender Hügel | $22,678–$24,946 | Lempertz | |||
| 2025·04 | Badende (L | oil on cardboard | — | Historia Auktionshaus | ||
| 2025·04 | Regenstimm | oil on canvas | — | Historia Auktionshaus | ||
| 2024·11 | Überschwemmung im alten Dorf (Die Sagehorner Landstraße bei Hochwasser) | $14,787–$16,899 | Lempertz | |||
| 2024·11 | Stall mit Worpsweder Bauernhaus | $10,562–$15,843 | Lempertz | |||
| 2024·11 | Frühjahr an der Wümme | $8,434–$12,650 | VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH Co. KG | |||
| 2024·11 | [no title recorded] | — | Dorotheum | |||
| 2024·11 | [no title recorded] | — | Dorotheum | |||
| 2024·09 | [no title recorded] | — | Dorotheum | |||
| 2024·06 | Überschwemmung im alten Dorf in Fischerhude (Flooding in the old village in Fischerhude) - recto & Wiesenlandschaft mit Birken und Ziege (Meadow Landscape with Birch Trees and Goat) - verso | $7,536–$10,765 | Sotheby's | |||
| 2024·06 | Regenstimmung im Moor | $10,872–$13,046 | Lempertz | |||
| 2024·06 | Das alte Haus | $16,308–$21,744 | Lempertz | |||
| 2024·06 | Winter in Fischerhude. Verso: Herbstlandschaft am See. | $17,395–$21,744 | Lempertz | |||
| 2024·06 | Abendsonne im Moor | $19,570–$23,918 | Lempertz | |||
| 2024·06 | Unter Birken | $21,730–$32,595 | Lempertz | |||
| 2024·05 | Moorlandschaft mit Torfhaufen bei Bergedorf. 1914/15 | Oil on canvas | $8,682–$13,022 | Grisebach | ||
| 2024·05 | „Wassermühle“. 1910 | Oil on artist's board | $8,682–$13,022 | Grisebach | ||
| 2024·05 | [no title recorded] | — | Dorotheum | |||
| 2024·03 | Sturm im Moor - recto (Storm in the moor- recto) & Blick auf die neue Welt von Czobels aus - verso (View of the new world from Czobels - verso) | $10,844–$16,266 | Sotheby's | |||
| 2023·12 | Mondaufgang in Worpswede | $3,262–$5,438 | Lempertz | |||
| 2023·11 | [no title recorded] | — | Dorotheum | |||
| 2023·09 | Fischerhude im Schnee (Fischerhude in the snow) | $10,635–$15,952 | Sotheby's | |||
| 2023·09 | Überschwemmung im alten Dorf in Fischerhude (Flooding in the old village in Fischerhude) - recto & Wiesenlandschaft mit Birken und Ziege (Meadow Landscape with Birch Trees and Goat) - verso | $10,635–$15,952 | Sotheby's | |||
| 2023·09 | Sturm im Moor - recto (Storm in the moor- recto) & Blick auf die neue Welt von Czobels aus - verso (View of the new world from Czobels - verso) | $15,952–$21,270 | Sotheby's | |||
| 2023·08 | important painter of the Worpswede artists' colony, Autumn Weather in the Moor, c. 1925-29, a previously unknown variant of his famous painting Autumn Weather (1899), which Otto Modersohn probably painted between 1925 and 1929, Oil on cardboard with inclusion of the painting ground, signed lower right O Modersohn, verso discarded study ''An der Surheide'' around 1923 and there inscribed upper left 2) Herbstwetter im Moor, 50 x 69 cm, minimal paint loss, framed 58 x 77 cm. Provenance: Bremen private collection. - We thank Mr. Rainer Noeres, Otto-Modersohn-Museum Fischerhude, for the confirmation of authenticity and the kind scientific support | — | Historia Auktionshaus | |||
| 2023·06 | Sommerabend, Um 1886 | Oil on canvas, laminated on board Estimate: € 6,000 / $ 6,840 Sold: € 6,985 / $ 7,962 (incl | $6,468–$6,468 | Ketterer Kunst | ||
| 2023·06 | Spätsommernachmittag in Fischerhude mit Mädchengruppe, 1911 | Oil on cardboard | $7,546–$7,546 | Ketterer Kunst | ||
| 2023·06 | Sturm im Moor, 1942 | Oil on canvas | $16,170–$16,170 | Ketterer Kunst | ||
| 2023·06 | Sommertag in Vorderhindelang | $10,717–$16,076 | Lempertz | |||
| 2023·06 | Moorlandschaft | $16,076–$21,434 | Lempertz | |||
| 2022·12 | Dünenlandschaft in Quelkhorn. Verso: Dünen in Surheide | $10,538–$12,646 | Lempertz | |||
| 2022·12 | Regenwolken über Gehöft in den Wümmewiesen | $12,646–$15,807 | Lempertz | |||
| 2022·12 | „Weg nach Surheide - Abendsonne“. 1938 | Oil on linen-finish cardboard | $8,430–$12,646 | Grisebach | ||
| 2022·11 | [no title recorded] | — | Dorotheum | |||
| 2022·06 | Mädchen im Moor, Um 1893 | Oil on cardboard | $8,462–$8,462 | Ketterer Kunst | ||
| 2022·06 | „An der Wümme“. Um 1910/11 | Oil on canvas | $19,314–$25,752 | Grisebach | ||
| 2022·06 | Torfabstich im Teufelsmoor. 1907 | Oil on cardboard, laid down on masonite | $10,730–$16,095 | Grisebach | ||
| 2021·12 | Badende an der alten Schleuse in Fischerhude | $11,291–$16,936 | Lempertz | |||
| 2021·12 | Grauer Sommertag/Grauer Wümmetag | $9,033–$13,549 | Lempertz | |||
| 2021·12 | Sommer an der Wümme | $9,033–$13,549 | Lempertz | |||
| 2021·12 | Brautzug im Frühling | $90,328–$135,492 | Lempertz | |||
| 2021·10 | Gewittersturm (Thunderstorm) | $10,879–$16,318 | Sotheby's | |||
| 2021·07 | „Frühling an der Wümme mit Gänsen“. 1939 | Oil on canvas | $4,743–$7,115 | Grisebach | ||
| 2021·06 | Weg nach Surheide (silbern) | $11,898–$17,847 | Lempertz | |||
| 2021·06 | Herbst im Moor - Moorbrücke | $17,847–$23,796 | Lempertz | |||
| 2021·06 | Mondnacht (Atelierblick nach Osten) | $21,416–$26,176 | Lempertz | |||
| 2020·12 | Landschaft bei Fischerhude | $14,531–$18,164 | Lempertz | |||
| 2020·12 | Überschwemmung | $12,109–$14,531 | Lempertz | |||
| 2020·12 | Herbst im Moor | $18,164–$24,218 | Lempertz | |||
| 2020·12 | Herbst im Moor mit Birke | $18,164–$24,218 | Lempertz | |||
| 2020·12 | In Worpswede | $24,228–$36,342 | Lempertz | |||
| 2020·12 | „Dämmerung an der Wümme im Alten Dorf“. 1931 | Oil on canvas | $9,727–$14,591 | Grisebach | ||
| 2020·12 | „Hochzeitszug in Fischerhude (III)“. Um 1920/21 | Oil on canvas | $18,238–$24,318 | Grisebach | ||
| 2020·07 | [no title recorded] | — | Dorotheum | |||
| 2020·07 | Blick ins Tal (Hindelang). 1934 | Oil on canvas | $6,766–$9,021 | Grisebach | ||
| 2020·07 | „Herbstwald“. 1939 | Oil on canvas | $13,531–$16,914 | Grisebach | ||
| 2020·07 | „Wollgras im Quelkhorner Moor, mit Blick auf den Mühlenberg“. 1928 | Oil on canvas | $13,531–$16,914 | Grisebach | ||
| 2020·07 | „Frühlingsmorgen am Gailenberg (Hindelang)“. 1933 | Oil on canvas, laid down on masonite | $9,021–$13,531 | Grisebach | ||
| 2020·06 | Spätsommertag in Fischerhude | $16,815–$22,420 | Lempertz | |||
| 2020·06 | Vorfrühling in Fischerhude (Fischerhuder Häuser mit Graben und Brücke) | $16,815–$22,420 | Lempertz | |||
| 2020·06 | Ruderpartie auf der Wümme | $22,420–$33,630 | Lempertz | |||
| 2020·06 | Herbst am Moorkanal. Verso: Louise Modersohn-Breling im grünen Kleid | $44,840–$67,260 | Lempertz | |||
| 2019·11 | [no title recorded] | — | Dorotheum | |||
| 2019·11 | [no title recorded] | — | Dorotheum | |||
| 2019·06 | Zillenbachbrücke (Weg nach Gailenberg oberhalb von Hindelang im Allgäu), 1931 | Oil on canvas | $4,509–$4,509 | Ketterer Kunst | ||
| 2019·06 | Hinterstein vom Wasser, 1934 | Oil on canvas | $13,528–$13,528 | Ketterer Kunst | ||
| 2019·06 | Badeszene, Um 1920 | Tempera | $4,509–$4,509 | Ketterer Kunst | ||
| 2019·05 | „Frühling vom Gängele (Balkon am Gailenberger Wohnhaus) - Blick in das Ostrachtal mit der Hintersteiner Bergkette“. 1933 | Oil on panel | $4,460–$6,691 | Grisebach | ||
| 2019·05 | Abend im Moordorf | $111,510–$133,812 | Lempertz | |||
| 2019·05 | Landschaft an der Wümme | $11,151–$13,381 | Lempertz | |||
| 2019·05 | Landschaft mit Häusern. 1907 | Oil on cardboard, firmly mounted on masonite | $5,576–$7,806 | Grisebach | ||
| 2019·05 | „Stillleben mit Hyazinthe“. 1927 | Oil on cardboard | $5,576–$7,806 | Grisebach | ||
| 2019·05 | Flusslandschaft. 1917 | Oil on panel | $5,576–$7,806 | Grisebach | ||
| 2018·11 | Abendstimmung. 1941 | Oil on canvas | $10,223–$13,631 | Grisebach | ||
| 2018·11 | Stillleben mit Krokus | $9,087–$13,631 | Lempertz | |||
| 2018·11 | Sommer am Moorkanal. 1942 | Oil on canvas | $11,359–$17,038 | Grisebach | ||
| 2018·11 | „Weyerberg“. 1916 | Oil on panel | $4,544–$6,815 | Grisebach | ||
| 2018·11 | Abendstimmung | $13,631–$17,038 | Lempertz | |||
Realized prices are sold by the record: 50 for $19, non-expiring. Reading them at volume is what Starter is for.