Hugo Gerard Ströhl worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Hugo Gerard Ströhl as Austrian artist (1851-1919).
Hugo Gerard Ströhl was born at Wels in 1851. His recorded nationality is Austria.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as graphic designer, heraldist and exlibrist.
An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
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.
Hugo Gerard Ströhl died in 1919, aged 68. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
