A Life Cut Short The life of Emil Squindo was a brief flicker in the nineteenth-century German art scene. Born in Nördlingen, Germany, in 1857, he moved through the creative circles of the era with a quiet, focused intent. His presence in the art world was marked by a suddenness that left much of his potential unfulfilled. He spent his formative years and his final days between Nördlingen and Munich, a city that served as a central hub…