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The Five Senses is a panel of five oil paintings produced by Hans Makart, the chief artist of the Viennese Court in the second half of the 19th century and the premier Austrian painter of his age.
Five Senses. In the Five Senses Makart depicts five female nudes, on five separate canvases, each placed in a forest setting. The women are "rotated" towards a different viewpoint and are engaged respectively (reading from left-to-right) in the activities of touching, hearing, seeing, smelling, and tasting.
- Austrian
- May 28, 1840
- Salzburg, Austria
- October 3, 1884
Oct 9, 2011 · His intense painterly treatment of Richard Wagner’s operas attests to his keen sense of innovative artistic developments. The designs by Gottfried Semper, who was a friend of Richard Wagner’s, inspired Makart to conceive his own architectural fantasies, which reflects his interest in the Gesamtkunstwerk or total work of art.
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.
Spotlights illuminated Makart's five nude allegories of the senses, Auguste Renoir's After the Bath (1876; Belvedere), and the imitation architecture of the baroque ceiling of the palace. The plush letters spelling "Senses," strung vertically, were unobtrusive as a parallel to the Makart nudes.
- Jane Van Nimmen
- 2012
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The Five Senses by Hans Makart. by Hans Makart. (Museum: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere) Credit: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. More: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19283946. Created by. Hans Makart Artist (Austria) Follow 4 followers. Belongs to. Austrian Gallery Belvedere Museum (Austria) Follow 4 followers. Contributed by.
The five-paneled oil painting which is portrayed above was, on account of the notoriety of its author, one of the chief attractions of the Austrian galleries in the Art Palace. It was a study in the nude, showing five different views of an ideal female human form.
