Emilie Mundt worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Emilie Mundt as Danish painter (1842-1922).
Emilie Mundt was born at Sorø in 1842. Her recorded nationality is Denmark. She trained at Académie Colarossi.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
She worked as painter.
An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Denmark shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Emilie Mundt died in 1922, aged 80. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
