Franziska zu Reventlow belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Franziska zu Reventlow as German writer, artist and translator (1871-1918).
Franziska zu Reventlow was born at Husum in 1871. Her recorded nationality is Germany.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
She worked as writer, translator and painter.
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.
Franziska zu Reventlow died in 1918, aged 47. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
