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Trained in history painting in Munich and Vienna, Anton Romako developed a career as a portraitist and genre painter in Rome. After returning to Austria, he combined free brushwork with expressive lines. Portrait of Christoph Reisser, painted in 1885, depicts the printer and technical director of the Neue Freie Presse holding his newspaper, with his gaze turned away from the viewer.
In Tegetthoff in the Naval Battle of Lissa, the event’s tension emerges through the gestures of the admiral and sailors gathered on the bridge, rather than through a view of the fleet. Girl Crossing a Mountain Torrent, around 1880–1882, similarly transforms a genre scene into a dangerous situation: the child balances on precarious tree trunks above the turbulent water.
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Oil on canvas
Portrait einer jungen Italienerin aus der Umgebung Roms
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2017-03-24
Published result : 11000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 7000–9000
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