In the history of art, Olga Wisinger-Florian is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Olga Wisinger-Florian as Austrian painter (1844-1926).
Olga Wisinger-Florian was born at Vienna in 1844. Her recorded nationality is Cisleithania.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
She worked as painter, landscape painter and still life painter.
Her recorded movement is impressionism.
Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Cisleithania shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Olga Wisinger-Florian died in 1926, aged 82. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: Impressionism
