Karl Philipp Fohr is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Karl Philipp Fohr as German painter (1795-1818).
Karl Philipp Fohr was born at Heidelberg in 1795. His recorded nationality is Grand Duchy of Baden.
Academies set the rules in this period - what counted as a serious subject, and who was allowed to train.
He worked as painter, graphic artist and illustrator.
A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Grand Duchy of Baden shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Karl Philipp Fohr died in 1818, aged 23. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
