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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."
Related Painters
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
Fritz Zuber-Buhler, 1822-1896
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