The exhibition provides fascinating insights not only into the life of an aristocratic collector around 1800 and the development of professional exhibitions, but also into the commercialization of works of art and the development of the modern art market.
The art&market exhibition at the Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe sheds light on the exciting history of the development of the modern art market. It provides fascinating insights not only into the life of an aristocratic collector around 1800 and the development of professional exhibitions, but also into the commercialization of works of art. art&market accompanies the collector Count Joseph Truchsess von Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach (1748-1813) on his sales project in Great Britain. Originally assembled in Cologne and Strasbourg in the 1780s, his collection of over 1,000 paintings made its way to London via Wurzach and Vienna in 1803 during the turmoil of the revolutionary period: there it was to form the basis of an English national gallery yet to be established.
