Adam Elsheimer belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Adam Elsheimer as German painter and draftsman (1578-1610).
Adam Elsheimer was born at Frankfurt in 1578. His recorded nationality is Germany.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter, designer and visual artist.
Among his best-known works are Landscape with the Good Samaritan and The Flight into Egypt. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Germany shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Adam Elsheimer died in 1610, aged 32. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Landscape with the Good Samaritan
- Notable work: The Flight into Egypt
