Maria Wodzińska belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Maria Wodzińska as Polish artist (1819–1896).
Maria Wodzińska was born at Vienna in 1819. Her recorded nationality is Russia.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
She worked as painter and composer.
Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Russia shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Maria Wodzińska died in 1896, aged 77. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
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