Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840-1884)
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Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840-1884)

Der Liebesbrief

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Hans Makart (Austrian, 1840-1884)
Der Liebesbrief
signed with initials (lower right)
oil on panel
56¾ x 43¾ in. (144.5 x 111 cm.)
Painted in 1875.
来源
Anonymous sale; Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 25 May 1886.
Adalbert von Zinner, Vienna (by 1888).
with H.O. Miethke, Vienna
Anonymous sale; Galerie St. Lucas, Vienna, 3-4 February 1921, lot 71, as Zwei Schwestern.
Kojiro Matsukata, Tokyo, circa 1930.
Private collection, Japan.
出版
Kunstschrift, Vol XII, no. 9, 7 December 1876, cols. 140-141.
Illustrierter Zeitung, 6 October 1877, p. 267, illustrated p. 276.
F. Bondy (publisher), Makart Album, Vienna, 1882, pl. 5. (as Die beide Freundinnen).
Illustrierter Zeitung, 11 October 1884, p. 355, illustrated p. 362. E. Ranzoni, Hans Makart: Werke in Heliogravure, 1889, pl. 52.
A. Weixlgärtner, 'Stichwort Makart' in Neue Österreichische Biographie 1815 - 1918, Vienna, 1929, Vol. 6, p. 24.
F. von Boetticher, Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Dresden, 1891, vol. I/2, p. 958, no. 34.
R. Feuchtmüller & W. Mrazek, Kunst in Österreich, 1860-1918, Vienna, 1964, pl. 37.
R. Feuchtmüller, Kunst in Österreich, vol. 2, Vienna, 1973, pl. 193.
G. Frodl, Hans Makart, Monographie und Werkverzeichnis, Salzburg, 1974, pp. 21, 352, no. 258, pl. 63.
展览
Vienna, Künstlerhaus, IV Grosse Jahres-Kunstausstellung, 1875, no. 204.
Dresden, Akademische Kunstausstellung, 1876.
Vienna, Künstlerhaus, Jubiläums Ausstellung, 1888, no. 33.
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One of Makart's most celebrated and published compositions in the artist's own lifetime, the present work has rarely been seen since it left Europe for Japan in the early 1930s, when it was acquired by the famous collector, Kojiro Matsukata. A powerful shipping magnate from Kawasaki, Matsukata amassed an art collection which included thousands of European paintings, a core group of which formed the basis for the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo.

Makart was one of the most popular artists of belle époque Vienna, whose large and richly decorated studio became a focal point of Viennese society in the 1870s and 1880s. He gained fame at home and abroad for his theatrical interpretations of historical scenes, and struggled to keep up with demand for his portraits and figure paintings. Like the present lot, these latter paintings were notable for their free brushwork and strong sense of colour, which translated into Makart's own style the same sense of glamour and confidence exuded by other fashionable society painters such as Giovanni Boldini and Alfred Stevens.