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HANS See also: Austrian painter, See also: born at See also: Salzburg, was the son of an inspector of the imperial See also: castle
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He has been aptly called the first See also: German painter of the 19th century
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When he, as a youth, entered the Vienna See also: Academy German See also: art was under the See also: rule of Cornelius's cold classicism
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It was entirely intellectual and See also: academic
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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 colour, and ever impatient to escape the routine of art-school drawing, was found to be "devoid of all talent" and forced to leave the Vienna Academy
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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
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The first picture he painted under Piloty, " Lavoisier in Prison," though timid and conventional, attracted attention by its sense of colour
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In the next, " The 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
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With the " Cupids " and " The Plague in Florence " of the next See also: year his fame became firmly established
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" Romeo and Juliet " was soon after bought by the Austrian emperor for the Vienna Museum, and Makart was invited to come to Vienna, where a large studio was placed at his disposal
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In Vienna Makart became the acknowledged See also: leader of the See also: artistic See also: life of the city, which in the 'seventies passed through a See also: period of feverish activity, the chief results of which are the sumptuously decorated public buildings of the Ringstrasse
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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 giant to his contemporaries in Vienna, and indeed in all See also: Austria and See also: Germany
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The appearance of each of his ambitiousSee also: historical and allegorical paintings was hailed with enthusiasm—the " Catherina Cornaro," "See also: Diana's See also: Hunt," "The Entry of See also: Charles V. into
See also: Antwerp," " See also: Abundantia," " 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
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which the citizens of Vienna celebrated the See also: silver See also: wedding of their rulers
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Some 15,000 See also: people participated in the pageant, all dressed in the costumes of the Rubens and See also: Rembrandt period
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Makart died in Vienna in See also: October 1884
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Unfortunately Makart was in the habit of using such villainous pigments and mediums that in the few decades which have passed since his death, the vast majority of his large paintings have practically perished
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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
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And this loss of their chief quality has accentuated the weaknesses of these pictures—the faulty drawing, careless and hasty execution, lack of deeper significance and prevalence of glaring anachronisms
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Important examples of his work are to be found at the galleries of Vienna, Berlin, See also: Hamburg and See also: Stuttgart
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For the Vienna Museum he also executed a series of decorative lunettes
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MAKING-UP 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 account to the next
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The carrying over of a "bull" position in Eries, for example, implies a sale for See also: cash and a simultaneous repurchase for the new account, both bargains being done at the making-up price
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This is fixed at See also: noon on carry-over See also: day, in accordance with the market price then current (see ACCOUNT; STOCK See also: EXCHANGE)
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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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