Hans Makart

{"Id":1193,"Name":"Hans Makart","Biography":"Obituary from \u003Cu\u003EThe Chronicle of Art\u003C/u\u003E, Oct. 1884:\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EHans 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. In 1869 he settled at Vienna, and there - a favourite at court, the darling of the Viennese, the proprietor of a magnificent studio, the painter of a number of renouned pictures, a public character in every sense of the word - he remained until his death. He had great facility of invention and design, was a dexterous draughtsman, and had a certain sumptuousness of colour and a passion for immense canvases: which qualities won him the very honourable nicknames of the \u0022Scott of the painting\u0022 and the \u0022Austrian Rubens\u0022. Among the most famous of his pictures are the \u003Cu\u003ECleopatra\u003C/u\u003E, the \u003Cu\u003ESeven Deadly Sins\u003C/u\u003E, the \u003Cu\u003EVenetians Taking the Oath to Catherine Cornaro\u003C/u\u003E, and the \u003Cu\u003EEntry of Charles V into Antwerp\u003C/u\u003E. [...]\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003EAcknowledgements:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EOur thanks go to Don Kurtz for kindly transcribing this article.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":true,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":true,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":84}