Elena Luksch-Makowsky: Silver Age and Secession

Upper Belvedere, Vienna

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Self-portrait (detail; 1896), Elena Luksch-Makowsky. Photo: Christopher Kesting/Belvedere, Vienna

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.

Self-portrait (1896), Elena Luksch-Makowsky. Photo: Christopher Kesting/Belvedere, Vienna

Ver Sacrum (Self-portrait with her son Peter) (1901), Elena Luksch-Makowsky.

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.

Pregnant (c. 1901), Elena Luksch-Makowsky. Photo: Christopher Kesting/Belvedere, Vienna

Banja, Volksbilderbogen (1908), Elena Luksch-Makowsky.

Banja, Volksbilderbogen (1908), Elena Luksch-Makowsky. Photo: Johannes Stoll/Belvedere, Vienna