Hitler marvels at The Falconer by 19th century Austrian academic/collector Hans Makart. He presented the painting to Hermann Goering, his right-hand man, as a birthday gift. The Rape of Europa ...

Hans Makart was an Austrian 19th Century painter who was born in 1840. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Lower Belvedere have featured Hans Makart's work in the past. Hans Makart's work has ...

A Vienna dispatch announces the death yesterday of Hans Makart, the celebrated Austrian, painter, at the comparatively early age of 44 years. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Share full article ...

Art A peek at the oceanic wealth of the woman who built Mar-a-Lago Marjorie Merriweather Post’s vast collection of pearl, ivory, seashell and other marine artworks is on view at the Hillwood Museum.

Hans Makart Photo Portrait, Artist, Austria,19th Century Art... Portrait of Hans Makart (May 2 8, 1840 –October 3, 1884) was a 19th-century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator.

Past Auction Hans Makart Austrian, 1840–1884 Leda and the Swan Medium oil on canvas Size 75 x 152.5 cm. (29.5 x 60 in.) ...

Makart was during his lifetime the favourite portrait painter among the bourgeoisie and aristocracy and his studio was a key focal point of Viennese society. According to Gerbert Frodl, the above lot ...

Previously, Alberto Giacometti’s 1961 bronze sculpture L’Homme Qui Marche I, which fetched £65 million in 2010, was the most expensive work sold at an auction in Europe. The sale of Klimt’s work on ...

Gustav Klimt (Vienna, 1862 - 1918) was the founder and one of the greatest exponents of the Viennese Secession(Wiener Secession), an association of nineteen people, including architects and artists of ...

His friendship with his master, as well as that with Wilhelm Leibl and Hans Makart, left no mark on his Plein-air painting. His works are considered to be the earliest examples of Hungarian and ...

Makart alternated, as did Klimt, from commissions on history and medieval literature to theater decoration, itself a prestigious genre in this greatest of performance towns. By the 1890s, Klimt was ...