Anton Romako
Subtitle: Beginn der Moderne
By: Herausgeber, Marianne Hussl-Hörmann, Hans-Peter Wipplinger ; Autorinnen, Herbert Giese [and 3 others] = The beginning of Modernism / editors, Marianne Hussl-Hörmann, Hans-Peter Wipplinger; authors, Herbert Giese [and 3 others]
Contributors: Hussl-Hörmann, Marianne, editor; Wipplinger, Hans-Peter, editor; Giese, Herbert, 1950- author; Leopold Museum
Edition: 1. Auflage = First edition.
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Köln
Language: ger; eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9783960983071
Subjects: Exhibitions; Modernism (Art)
Other titles: Beginning of Modernism
Work titles: Paintings
Description: Anton Romako was arguably the most idiosyncratic artist in Austrian painting of the late 19th century. Meeting with incomprehension and contempt, his oeuvre changed the paradigms of perception and depicting reality in an unconventional manner and ahead of its time. What was particularly unusual was that different painterly tendencies coalesced in Romako's work simultaneously--from realism and impressionism all the way to a new psychologizing expressive art. Especially the paintings of his last 14 years, which Romako spent in Vienna from 1876, allow us to trace his development from a popular manner of depiction towards a fundamental renewal of history-, genre-, and portrait painting. Exhibition: Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria (06.04. - 18.06.2018).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Leopold Museum, Vienna, April 6 - June 18, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (page 190-191).

Parallel texts in English and German.