Joseph Karl Stieler worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Joseph Karl Stieler as German painter (1781–1858).
Joseph Karl Stieler was born at Mainz in 1781. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Academies set the rules in this period - what counted as a serious subject, and who was allowed to train.
He worked as painter and portrait painter.
His recorded movement is neoclassicism.
Among his best-known works are Fredrika Dorotea Vilhelmina, 1781 - 1826, Drottning av Sverige and Othon as a young man. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
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.
Joseph Karl Stieler died in 1858, aged 77. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Fredrika Dorotea Vilhelmina, 1781 - 1826, Drottning av Sverige
- Notable work: Othon as a young man
- Movement: Neoclassicism
