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Hans Makart
Hans Makart

Hans Makart

Austrian, 1840 - 1884
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Hans Makart was a 19th-century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator. He is best known for his influence on Gustav Klimt and other Austrian artists, but in his own era he was considered an important artist himself and a celebrity figure in the high culture of Vienna and attended with almost cult-like adulation.

Makart was the son of a chamberlain at the Mirabell Palace, born in the former residence of the prince-archbishops of Salzburg, the city in which Mozart had been born. Initially, he received his training in painting at the Vienna Academy between 1850 and 1851 from Johann Fischbach. While in the Academy, German art was under the rule of a classicism, which was entirely intellectual and academic—clear and precise drawing, sculpturesque modelling, and pictorial erudition were esteemed above all. Makart, who was a poor draughtsman, but who had a passionate and sensual love of color, was impatient to escape the routine of art school drawing. For his fortune, he was found by his instructors to be devoid of all talent and forced to leave the Vienna Academy.

He went to Munich, and after two years of independent study attracted the attention of Karl Theodor von Piloty, under whose guidance, between 1861 and 1865 he developed his painting style. During these years, Makart also travelled to London, Paris and Rome to further his studies. The first picture he painted under Piloty, Lavoisier in Prison, though it was considered timid and conventional, attracted attention by its sense of color. In his next work, The Knight and the Water Nymphs, he first displayed the decorative qualities to which he afterwards sacrificed everything else in his work. His fame became established in the next year, with two works, Modern Amoretti and The Plague in Florence. His painting Romeo and Juliet was soon after bought by the Austrian emperor for the Vienna Museum, and Makart was invited to come to Vienna by the aristocracy.

The prince Von Hohenlohe provided Makart with an old foundry at the Gusshausstraße 25 to use as a studio. He gradually turned it into an impressive place full of sculptures, flowers, musical instruments, requisites and jewellery that he used to create classical settings for his portraits, mainly of women. Eventually his studio looked like a salon and became a social meeting point in Vienna. Cosima Wagner described it as a "wonder of decorative beauty, a sublime lumber-room". His luxurious studio served as a model for a great many upper middle-class living rooms.

Makart became the acknowledged leader of the artistic life of the Vienna, which in the 1870s passed through a period of feverish activity, the chief results of which are the sumptuously decorated public buildings of the Ringstraße. He not only practised painting, but was also an interior designer, costume designer, furniture designer, and decorator, and his work decorated most of the public spaces of the era. His work engendered the term "Makartstil", or "Makart style", which completely characterized the era.

Salzburg's Makart Square, or Makartplatz, was named after the painter.

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Die fünf Sinne;Das Gefühl

Die fünf Sinne;Das Gefühl (1872-1879)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Mythology
Moderne Amoretten

Moderne Amoretten (1868)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Mythology
Skizze für ein Triptychon mit mythologischen Szenen

Skizze für ein Triptychon mit mythologischen Szenen (1865)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Mythology
Motiv aus dem Hellbrunner Schloßpark

Motiv aus dem Hellbrunner Schloßpark (1850s)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Still Life
Treasures of the Sea

Treasures of the Sea (c. 1870-75)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Mythology
Modern Amoretti

Modern Amoretti

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
Modern Amoretti

Modern Amoretti

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
Modern Amoretti

Modern Amoretti

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1881-1884)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer (1881-1884)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
Anthony van Dyck

Anthony van Dyck (1881-1884)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
Diego Velázquez

Diego Velázquez (1881-1884)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
Hans Holbein the Younger

Hans Holbein the Younger (1881-1884)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci (1881-1884)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens (1881-1884)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
Raphael

Raphael (1881-1884)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1881-1884)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
Titian

Titian (1881-1884)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
Allegory of Religious and Profane Painting

Allegory of Religious and Profane Painting (1881-1884)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Mythology
Allegory of the Law and Truth of Representation

Allegory of the Law and Truth of Representation (1881-1884)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Mythology
Skizze zu einem Dom

Skizze zu einem Dom

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Abstract
The Death of Siegfried, the Giant Hagen Throwing Siegfried into a Gorge

The Death of Siegfried, the Giant Hagen Throwing Siegfried into a Gorge

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Mythology
Portrait of a young woman

Portrait of a young woman

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
Portrait of a Young Lady in Profile

Portrait of a Young Lady in Profile (c. 1874)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
A Young Woman Sleeping

A Young Woman Sleeping

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
Centaurs in the Forest

Centaurs in the Forest (c. 1865)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Mythology
Portrait of a Lady with a Pearl Necklace

Portrait of a Lady with a Pearl Necklace

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
Erste Internationale Kunstausstellung im Künstlerhause

Erste Internationale Kunstausstellung im Künstlerhause (1882)

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Posters
Portrait Of Countess Gabrielle Louise Marie Duchâtel (1854-1889), Wife Of The French Ambassador In Vienna

Portrait Of Countess Gabrielle Louise Marie Duchâtel (1854-1889), Wife Of The French Ambassador In Vienna

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Figurative
Susanna and the Elders

Susanna and the Elders

Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840 - 1884)
Religion
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