Painting Detail
Portrait of a WomanArtist: Hans Makart
Medium: Painting, Oil on panel, 120x80 cm
Date: 19th century
Genre: Portrait Paintings
Source: Via the State Museum Fund from the collection of A. A. Zhuravlyov, 1920
The Austrian academician Hans Makart, a friend of Richard Wagner, organized spectacular shows that combined various art forms. He was one of the representatives of artistic officialdom who exerted an appreciable influence on modern art, particularly on Gustav Klimt. In Germany and Austria the change of artistic orientation took place quietly, without the furious disputes between traditionalists and rebels that marked French art in the same period.