Karl Schorn worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Karl Schorn as German artist (1803-1850).
Karl Schorn was born at Düsseldorf in 1803. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, chess player and university teacher.
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.
Karl Schorn died in 1850, aged 47. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
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