Get a Schwabe Certificate of Authenticity for your painting (COA) for your Schwabe drawing.

For all your Schwabe artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

Getting a Schwabe Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Schwabe painting or drawing.

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We have been authenticating Schwabe and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Schwabe experts and Schwabe certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Schwabe artworks.

Our Schwabe paintings and drawings authentications are accepted and respected worldwide.

Each COA is backed by in-depth research and analysis authentication reports.

The Schwabe certificates of authenticity we issue are based on solid, reliable and fully referenced art investigations, authentication research, analytical work and forensic studies.

We are available to examine your Schwabe painting or drawing anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Schwabe paintings or drawings take longer.

Our clients include Schwabe collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

We perform Carlos Schwabe art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your Carlos Schwabe or we will sell it for you.

Carlos Schwabe was a Symbolist painter born in Germany. Schwabe moved to Geneva, Switzerland at a very young age and received his earliest training in art there under Joseph Mitty at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs. As a young man, he moved to Paris to continue his studies. While he was in Paris, Schwabe met other emerging Symbolist painters and his unique style began to form.

Schwabe’s compositions generally included allegorical or mythological figures such as Death and the gods. He was in high demand as an illustrator for books, and illustrated many including “Jardin de l’infante” by Albert Samain and “Les Fleurs du Mal” by Baudelaire.

He lived and worked most of his life in France creating powerful scenes of life and death in a dramatic style. Nudes, angels, demons, fairies and other mythological creatures were just a few of his subjects, painted in a way to symbolize a variety of human emotions.

During his early years in Paris, Schwabe also worked as a wallpaper designer, which helped him to hone his graphic skills. This study in graphic design can be seen later in his mystical and religious compositions.

Though Schwabe’s main claim to fame was in book illustrations, he also created a number of sketches, watercolors and oil paintings. Today, Schwabe’s work may be found in France, Germany or Switzerland, perhaps as a sketch stuck between the pages of an old book.

Still wondering about a late 19th century European fantasy painting in your home? Contact us…it could be by Carlos Schwabe.