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HANS See also: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 .
The See also: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:
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