Elena Luksch-Makowsky trained in St Petersburg with the realist master Ilya Repin, but made her name in Vienna with the Secessionists and the Wiener Werkstätte. This show of her paintings, prints and sculptures focuses on the role that this often over-looked artist played in forging connections between the Austrian avant-garde and Russia. Find out more from the Belvedere’s website.
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Self-portrait (1896), Elena Luksch-Makowsky. Photo: Christopher Kesting/Belvedere, Vienna
Ver Sacrum (Self-portrait with her son Peter) (1901), Elena Luksch-Makowsky. Photo: Johannes Stoll/Belvedere, Vienna
Adolescentia (1903), Elena Luksch-Makowsky. Photo: Belvedere, Vienna
Pregnant (c. 1901), Elena Luksch-Makowsky. Photo: Christopher Kesting/Belvedere, Vienna
Banja, Volksbilderbogen (1908), Elena Luksch-Makowsky. Photo: Johannes Stoll/Belvedere, Vienna
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