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Hans Makart (28 May 1840 – 3 October 1884) was a 19th-century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator. Makart was a prolific painter whose ideas significantly influenced the development of visual art in Austria-Hungary, Germany, and beyond.
A master of networking and self-promotion, Hans Makart was better known and more acclaimed in his lifetime than his contemporaries Monet, Manet and Degas. But history has almost forgotten his sensual and sumptuous works, and he is most remembered for being an inspiration to Gustav Klimt.
Leading the Revival of Realism. Obituary from The Chronicle of Art, Oct. 1884:Hans Markart (1840-1884) was born in Salzburg. He studied at Munich under Piloty - whose best pupil he was - and afterwards at Rome; and at seven-and-twenty the Paris Exhibition mad him famous.
Oct 9, 2011 · Painter of the senses. Impressions. Products. Other exhibitions. Like no other artist of the nineteenth century, Hans Makart influenced an era whose embodiment he became and which went down in the annals of history as the ‘Makart period’.
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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.
Artwork Details. Title: The Dream after the Ball. Artist: Hans Makart (Austrian, Salzburg 1840–1884 Vienna) Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 62 3/8 x 37 1/4 in. (158.4 x 94.6 cm) Classification: Paintings.
