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ELENA LUKSCH-MAKOVSKY (1878-1967) The fairy tale

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2 0003 000
signed in Cyrillic and dated ‘E. Makovskaya 1900’ (lower right); signed, titled and dated ‘Das Märchen/1898/Elena Makowsky‘ (on the reverse) oil on canvas 73.9 x 58.8 cm painted in 1898-1900 Elena Konstantinova Makovskaya (1878–1967) was born in St Petersburg into an artistic family; her father, Konstantin, and uncle, Vladimir Makovsky, were members of the Peredvizhniki. Trained under Ilya Repin at the Imperial Academy of Arts, she later studied in Munich with Anton Ažbe and Mathias Gasteiger, developing a style shaped by Russian folk themes and Jugendstil aesthetics. In 1900 she married Austrian artist Richard Luksch. She moved to Vienna shortly after her marriage and became the only woman with her own monogram in the Vienna Secession, exhibiting alongside Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann. Russian tradition was central to her wor


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