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Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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at the Kunstverein in Munich, Makarts fame (for his lifetime at least) wassecured. As the picture made its triumphal progress through the German cities, the enthu-siasm increased, and even in Paris, amid the babel of voices, the praise was louder than tliefault-findings, though it must not be forgotten that sober criticism outside of Germany neveraccepted Makart. But at home, and everywhere indeed, at first, the pttblic cheered his workto the echo, and the Emperor of Austria set the seal to popular approval by giving the artist acommission for ten thousand marks. He then produced the Juliet mourned by Romeo, apicture that added greatly to his reputation. Encouraged by a material success that almostat a bound had lifted him from poverty to affluence, Makart now opened a studio in Vienna ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 77 and began to paint with great industry. He produced in rapid succession the Abundantia,the Catarina Coruaro/ the Cleopatra, and among a crowd of smaller works which hlled
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BRUNHILDE (DIE WALKURE.) FROM THE PAINTING BY HANS MAKART. up the crevices of his time devoted to these huge canvases, he found leisure also to paint the drop-curtain for the Vienna Stadt Theatre. In lS7o and 1876 he passed a winter in Egj-ptVol. II.-12, ** 178 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. with Lenbach and Leopold Miiller, and on Ms return painted the Mle Hunt, which weengrave. This was followed by the Entry of Charles V. into Antwerp, which was sent tothe Paris Exposition of 1878 ; the next year, 1879, came the Five Senses, and in 1880 ap-peared the Diana Hunting, which is owned in this country and was exhibited at theGallery of the American Art Association. The pictures we have named, with a considerablenumber of allegorical and fanciful pieces, figures named after legendary or poetical characters,such as the Brunhilde, here given, make up the chief life-work of Makart, and his ability asa composer^or let us frankly say, his manner as a composer—for ability in this field he hadabs

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