Arthur Fitger worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Arthur Fitger as German painter, art critic, playwright and poet (1840-1909).
Arthur Fitger was born at Delmenhorst in 1840. His recorded nationality is Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as poet, painter and writer.
An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Grand Duchy of Oldenburg shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Arthur Fitger died in 1909, aged 69. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
