Joachim von Sandrart the Elder belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Joachim von Sandrart the Elder as German Baroque art-historian and painter (1606-1688).
Joachim von Sandrart the Elder was born at Frankfurt in 1606. His recorded nationality is Frankfurt.
Patronage, the guild system and a new open art market shaped what could be painted and for whom.
He worked as painter, art historian and printmaker.
His recorded movement is baroque.
Among his best-known works are Pieter Cornelisz Hooft (1581-1647). High bailiff of Muiden, historian and poet, Odysseus and Nausikaä and Teutsche Academie der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Frankfurt shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Joachim von Sandrart the Elder died in 1688, aged 82. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Pieter Cornelisz Hooft (1581-1647). High bailiff of Muiden, historian and poet
- Notable work: Odysseus and Nausikaä
- Notable work: Teutsche Academie der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste
- Movement: Baroque
