Ernst Ziller belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Ernst Ziller as German architect, active in Greece.
Ernst Ziller was born at Serkowitz in 1837. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at National Technical University of Athens.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as architect, art historian and archaeologist.
His best-known work is National Theatre of Greece - Ziller Building. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
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.
Ernst Ziller died in 1923, aged 86. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: National Theatre of Greece - Ziller Building
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