Anton Romako Austrian, 1832-1889

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Description

Anton Romako
Bildnis der Fürstin Maria Magda Kuefstein, geb. Krueger (Portrait of Countess Maria Magda Kuefstein, née Krueger)
signed A Romako l.l.
oil on canvas
79.5 by 64 cm., 31 1/4 by 25 1/4 in.

Provenance

Maria Magda Kuefstein, Greillenstein
Dr Ferdinand Kuefstein, Greillenstein
Moriz Eisler, Brünn (Brno)
Neue Galerie, Vienna
Österreichische Galerie, Vienna (by 1941)
Restituted to the heirs of Moriz Eisler in 2001

Exhibited

Vienna, Österreichische Galerie, 'Neuerwerbungen der Österreichischen Galerie', XXXI. Wechselausstellung im Oberen Belvedere, 1941
Vienna, Künstlerhaus, Jubiläumsausstellung des Künstlerhauses 1861-1941, no. 745
Vienna, Gedächtnisausstellung, 1950, no. 41
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Exposition Vienne, 1986

Literature

Fritz Novotny, Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, 1949, p. 122
Fritz Novotny, Der Maler Anton Romako, Vienna 1954, p. 99, no. 342

Catalogue Note

Painted circa 1885-6. Count Karl Ferdinand Franz von Kuefstein and his wife Maria Magda were among Romako's most important and loyal patrons. Maria Magda (1845-1897), née Krüger, married the Count in Paris in 1870. Together, they continued the long family tradition of fostering close contacts with artists and musicians, who included over the course of the century Goethe, Gounod, Liszt, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Johann Strauss, and Heinrich Heine.