Heinrich von Angeli belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Heinrich von Angeli as Austrian painter (1840-1925).
Heinrich von Angeli was born at Sopron in 1840. His recorded nationality is Austria.
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 Austria shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Heinrich von Angeli died in 1925, aged 85. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
