HANS MAKART – Creative Austrian Painter (HD)

He is best known for his influence on Gustav Klimt and other Austrian artists, but in his own era, he has considered an important artist himself and a celebrity figure in the high culture of Vienna and attended with almost cult-like adulation.
Makart was the son of a chamberlain at the Mirabell Palace, born in the former residence of the prince-archbishops of Salzburg, the city in which Mozart had been born.
Initially, he received his training in painting at the Vienna Academy between 1850 and 1851 from Johann Fischbach.
While in the Academy, German art was under the rule of classicism, which was entirely intellectual and academic—clear and precise drawing, sculpturesque modeling, and pictorial erudition was esteemed above all.