Georg Flegel is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Georg Flegel as German Baroque painter (1566-1638).
Georg Flegel was born at Olomouc in 1566. His recorded nationality is Germany.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as botanical illustrator and painter.
A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
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.
Georg Flegel died in 1638, aged 72. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
