art&market: The Truchsessen Gallery in London and the English Art Market around 1800

The exhibition offers fascinating insights not only into the life of an aristocratic collector around 1800 and the development of professional exhibition practices but also into the commercialization of artworks and the evolution of the modern art market. The exhibition "art&market" at the Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe sheds light on the exciting history of the modern art market. It provides captivating glimpses not only into the world of an aristocratic collector around 1800 and the development of professional exhibition practices but also into the commercialization of artworks. "art&market" follows the collector Count Joseph Truchsess von Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach (1748-1813) in his sales endeavors in Great Britain. Originally established in the 1780s in Cologne and Strasbourg, his collection of over 1,000 paintings made its way to London in 1803 through the turmoil of the revolutionary period, via Wurzach and Vienna: there, it was intended to form the basis of a yet-to-be-established English National Gallery.