Baron Raimund von Stillfried belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Baron Raimund von Stillfried as Czech photographer (1839-1911).
Baron Raimund von Stillfried was born at Chomutov in 1839.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, photographer and world traveler.
Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
Baron Raimund von Stillfried died in 1911, aged 72. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
