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Hans Makart
1840-1884
Austrian, Academic Classicists Painter and Designer
Stylistically influenced by the following painters - Paul Delaroche, Adolphe-William Bouguereau and Thomas Couture
Education - Vienna Academy of
Fine Arts and later
at the Academy in Munich under Karl Theodor von Piloty
Burial Place - Makart died in Vienna and was buried at the Zentralfriedhof, Vienna.
Biography and Description of Hans Market's Painting style
Hans Makart was born in Salzburg in 1804. He became celebrated for his richly colored historical and legendary themed paintings. His dreamy pictures, painted in a dramatic and sensual style, had an extraordinary way of revealing a subjects spiritual qualities. Blithe elegance, and an ethereal atmosphere characterize his insightful painting style. As a painter he admired the sculptures of the ancient Greeks as well as Renaissance painters. Public authorities often condemned his decadent nudes and scandalous portrayals of historical figures.
Makart was a popular man and a
successful painter in Vienna. He was also known for the many outrageous
parties he threw in his sumptuously appointed atelier. His studio was
the place to be seen for European royalty, politicians, painters and
writers. He was the leading celebrity in Vienna and the Andy Warhol of
his generation
About the Academic Classicism Painting Style
Followers of this movement were influenced by the high standards of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts, which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Academic Classicism attempted to merge both techniques to create the perfect style. It is characterized by adhering to a strict manner of painting, following narrow compositional rules and delicacy of color. The atmospheric effects are sumptuously luminescent. According to art historian, Walter Pater "To produce such effects at all requires all the resources of painting, with its power of indirect expression, of subordinate but significant detail, its atmosphere, its foregrounds and backgrounds."
Description of the Academic Classicism Painting style
Arthurian legends and classical
mythology used by
Rococo artists was
made fashionable again by Academic Classicists painters.
This mesmerizing style favored Greek,
Roman
and
Renaissance
themes. According to Solomon
Gessner, the great German painter and art historian, "By studying the
works of Greek sculptors the painter can attain the sublimest
conceptions of beauty, and learn what must be added to nature in order
to give to the imitation dignity and propriety.
Famous Painters of Academic Classicists Movement
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, 1817-1900
Adolphe-William Bouguereau1825-1905
Charles Emile August Carolus-Duran, 1837-1917
Leon Francois Comerre, 1850-1916
Pierre-Auguste Cot 1837-1883
Thomas Couture, 1815-1879
Paul Delaroche 1797-1856
Eugene Fromentin, 1820-1876
Jean Leon Gerome, 1824-1904
Jean-Paul Laurens1838-1921
Adolphe Alexandre Lesrel, 1839-1929
Luc Olivier Merson, 1846-1920
Hans Makart, 1840 - 1884
Giulio Rosati, 1858-1917
Franz Xavier Winterhalter, 1805-1873
William Clarke Wontner, 1857-1930
Key Descriptive Words
and Phrases associated with the
Academic Classicism Painting Style -
Classicism, rigid Academic standards, ancient Greece, Rome, Herculaneum,
Pompeii, neoclassicism, romantic movement, European academies, French
Académie des Beaux-Arts, Romanticism, academism, academicism, accademic
training, highly romantic, inspired by historical and mythological
stories, L'art pompier, the Grand Tour, eclecticism, classical realism,
historicism, 19th century, syncretism, academician, Victorian Classicism
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