In the history of art, Emil Jakob Schindler is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Emil Jakob Schindler as Austrian landscape painter and the father of Alma Mahler. (1842-1892).
Emil Jakob Schindler was born at Vienna in 1842. His recorded nationality is Austria.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, landscape painter and visual artist.
Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Austria shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Emil Jakob Schindler died in 1892, aged 50. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
