Heinrich Hofmann belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Heinrich Hofmann as German artist (1824-1911).
Heinrich Hofmann was born at Darmstadt in 1824. His recorded nationality is Grand Duchy of Hesse.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter and university teacher.
Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Grand Duchy of Hesse shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Heinrich Hofmann died in 1911, aged 87. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
