Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld as painter from Germany (1794-1872).
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld was born at Leipzig in 1794. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Thomasschule zu Leipzig.
Academies set the rules in this period - what counted as a serious subject, and who was allowed to train.
He worked as painter, illustrator 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 Germany shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld died in 1872, aged 78. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
