Dutch painter (b. 1580, Antwerpen, d. 1666, Haarlem).   Related Paintings of HALS, Frans :. | Drinking Boy (Taste) | Catharina Both van der Eem | Two Boys Singing | Portrait of a Woman 6475 | Officers and Sergeants of the St George Civic Guard Company |
Related Artists:
Otto Pilny
Swiss, 1866 - 1936
William Hays
May 9, 1819 C February 7, 1875
Makart, Hans
Austrian Academic Painter, 1840-1884 Austrian painter. He studied (1860-65) at the Akademie in Munich under the history painter Karl Theodor von Piloty whose influence is evident in Makart's Death of Pappenheim (1861; Vienna, Hist. Mus.). Makart visited London and Paris in 1862 and Rome in 1863. The Papal Election (1863-5; Munich, Neue Pin.) reveals Makart's skill in the bold use of colour to convey drama as well as his virtuoso draughtsmanship. Two decorative triptychs, Modern Cupids (1868; Vienna, Zentsparkasse), and the Plague in Florence (1868; Schweinfurt, Samml. Schefer), brought Makart both fame and disapproval (mostly because they lacked a literary original) when exhibited in Munich in 1868. His plan for the second work