Louise Catherine Breslau worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Louise Catherine Breslau as German-Swiss painter (1856-1927).
Louise Catherine Breslau was born at Munich in 1856. Her recorded nationality is Germany. She trained at Académie Julian.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
She worked as painter, pastellist and lithographer.
Her recorded movement is impressionism.
Among her best-known works are Chez soi, Henry Davison and Kids. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Legion of Honour (1901).
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.
Louise Catherine Breslau died in 1927, aged 71. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour — 1901
- Notable work: Chez soi
- Notable work: Henry Davison
- Notable work: Kids
- Notable work: Portrait of Jean Carriès in his studio
- Movement: Impressionism
