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HANS MAKART (1840-1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 452 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAKART (1840-1884)  , See also:Austrian painter, See also:born at See also:Salzburg, was the son of an inspector of the imperial See also:castle . He has been aptly called the first See also:German painter of the 19th See also:century . When he, as a youth, entered the See also:Vienna See also:Academy German See also:art was under the See also:rule of See also:Cornelius's See also:cold classicism . It was entirely intellectual and See also:academic . Clear and precise See also:drawing, sculpturesque modelling, and pictorial erudition were the qualities most esteemed; and it is not surprising that See also:Makart, poor draughtsman to the very last, with a passionate and sensual love of See also:colour, and ever impatient to See also:escape the routine of art-school drawing, was found to be "devoid of all See also:talent" and forced to leave the Vienna Academy . He went to See also:Munich, and after two years of See also:independent study attracted the See also:attention of See also:Piloty, under whose guidance he made rapid and astonishing progress . The first picture he painted under Piloty, " See also:Lavoisier in See also:Prison," though timid and conventional, attracted attention by its sense of colour . In the next, " The See also:Knight and the See also:Water See also:Nymphs," he first displayed the decorative qualities to which he afterwards sacrificed everything else in his See also:work . With the " Cupids " and " The See also:Plague in See also:Florence " of the next See also:year his fame became firmly established . " Romeo and Juliet " was soon after bought by the Austrian See also:emperor for the Vienna Museum, and Makart was invited to come to Vienna, where a large studio was placed at his disposal . In Vienna Makart became the acknowledged See also:leader of the See also:artistic See also:life of the See also:city, which in the 'seventies passed through a See also:period of feverish activity, the See also:chief results of which are the sumptuously decorated public buildings of the Ringstrasse . The See also:enthusiasm of the See also:time, the splendour of the fetes over which Makart presided, and the very obvious See also:appeal of his huge compositions in their glowing richness of colour, in which he tried to emulate See also:Rubens, made him appear a very See also:giant to his contemporaries in Vienna, and indeed in all See also:Austria and See also:Germany .

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appearance of each of his ambitious See also:historical and allegorical paintings was hailed with enthusiasm—the " Catherina See also:Cornaro," "See also:Diana's See also:Hunt," "The Entry of See also:Charles V. into See also:Antwerp," " See also:Abundantia," " See also:Spring," " Summer," " The See also:Death of See also:Cleopatra " and the " Five Senses." He reached the See also:zenith of his fame when, in 1879, he designed, single-handed, the costumes, scenic setting, and triumphal cars of the See also:grand See also:pageant with 452 which the citizens of Vienna celebrated the See also:silver See also:wedding of their rulers . Some 15,000 See also:people participated in the pageant, all dressed in the costumes of the Rubens and See also:Rembrandt period . Makart died in Vienna in See also:October 1884 . Unfortunately Makart was in the See also:habit of using such villainous See also:pigments and mediums that in the few decades which have passed since his death, the vast See also:majority of his large paintings have practically perished . The blues have turned into See also:green ; the See also:bitumen has eaten away the See also:rich glow of the colour harmonies; the thickly applied paint has cracked and in some instances crumbled away . And this loss of their chief quality has accentuated the weaknesses of these pictures—the faulty drawing, careless and hasty See also:execution, lack of deeper significance and prevalence of glaring anachronisms . Important examples of his work are to be found at the galleries of Vienna, See also:Berlin, See also:Hamburg and See also:Stuttgart . For the Vienna Museum he also executed a See also:series of decorative lunettes . MAKING-UP See also:PRICE, a See also:term used in the See also:London and other See also:British Stock Exchanges, to denote the price at which speculative bargains are carried over from one See also:account to the next . The carrying over of a "See also:bull" position in Eries, for example, implies a See also:sale for See also:cash and a simultaneous repurchase for the new account, both bargains being done at the making-up price . This is fixed at See also:noon on carry-over See also:day, in accordance with the See also:market price then current (see ACCOUNT; STOCK See also:EXCHANGE) . The term is also used in New See also:York, where the making-up prices are fixed at the end of a day's business, in accordance with the See also:American See also:system of daily settlements .

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