Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl as painter (1860-1933).
Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl was born at Timișoara in 1860. His recorded nationality is Italy.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter and printmaker.
An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl died in 1933, aged 73. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
