Karl von Piloty is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Karl von Piloty as German painter (1826-1886).
Karl von Piloty was born at Munich in 1826. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, university teacher and teacher.
A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
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 von Piloty died in 1886, aged 60. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
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