Product Description
Oil on canvas, signed upper right Elena K. Luksch-Makowsky (Russian/Austrian, 1878-1967)
portrait of Richard Lauffen (1907-1990) famous German actor
27 3/4″ x 20″
Richard Lauffen (1907-1990) was a German actor on stage and movies..
Damals in Paris (1956)
Tiger of Bengal (1960)
Der rote Kreis (1960)
OĢdipussi (1988)
Yelena Makovskaya-Luksh Biography
(b St Petersburg, 13 Nov 1878; d Hamburg, 15 Sept 1967). Painter,
sculptor, illustrator and designer, daughter of (2) Vladimir Makovsky.
She studied in St Petersburg, first at the Tenisheva Drawing School
(mid-1890s) and then briefly at the Academy of Arts, where she was
taught painting by Il’ya Repin and sculpture by Vladimir Beklemishev
(1861-1920). In 1898 she received a grant from the pacifist Jan Gotlib
Bloch (1836-1902) for foreign study. She moved to Munich where she
studied, simultaneously with Vasily Kandinsky, Alexey Jawlensky and
Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, at Anton Azbe’s studio. She married the Austrian
sculptor Richard Luksch (1872-1967) and the couple moved to Vienna, We
bought this painting where Makovskaya-Luksh was the first female
member of the Vienna Secession and a participant in the pioneering
design cooperative Wiener Kunst im Hause.
