Anselm Feuerbach worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Anselm Feuerbach as German painter (1829–1880).
Anselm Feuerbach was born at Speyer in 1829. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, university teacher and visual artist.
His recorded movement is neoclassicism.
Among his best-known works are Battle of the Amazons, Girl with Dead Bird and The Storyteller at the Well. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
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.
Anselm Feuerbach died in 1880, aged 51. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Battle of the Amazons
- Notable work: Girl with Dead Bird
- Notable work: The Storyteller at the Well
- Movement: Neoclassicism
