Old and Modern Pictures

Nr. of pages: [PDF page number: 52].
Holding Institution: online: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Research Center

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"The Miethke Fine Art Gallery, Vienna I., Dorotheergasse 11, is the principal depot in
Austria-Hungary for the sale of paintings and other works of art. It was established in 1861 and in 1895 was removed to its present premises, Count Nako's Palace which was specially adapted for the requirements of this important business.
Especial attention is given to Italian, Dutch, German and French paintings from the thirteenth century to the present time. It was from this Gallery of Fine Arts that the principal works of Crivelli, Mantegna, Verrocchio, Perugino, Palma Vecchio, Altdorfer, Dürer, Holbein, Cranach, Memling, Lukas van Leyden Rembrandt, Rubens, van Dyck,
Tiepolo, Fragonard, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Hogarth, Constable, Turner, Delacroix, Corot, Diaz, Daubigny, Millet, Monticelli, Courbet, Waldmüller, Manet, Menzel, Uhde, van Gogh, Gauguin etc. found their way to the galleries of the Continent and the
various collections of European and American amateurs. Up to the present time the Miethke Fine Art Gallery has arranged no less than 106 Auction-Sales which were not only important events from the point of view of Art but also of Society. Among
others the following collections were disposed of Artaria, Eggers, Graf Hoyos, Bühlmeyer, v. Klinkosch, Todesco, Stametz-Meyer and also those left at their
death by Hans Makart, J. E. Schindler, Viktor Tilgner, A. Pettenkofen, Charlotte Wolter and Rudolf von Alt.
The Miethke Fine Art Gallery has always considered it their chief aim to actively promote the Austrian and especially the Viennese painters, just as in the seventies and eighties of the past century it firmly supported von Alt, Makart, Pettenkofen, Schindler and Schwaiger, it is now the centre of the Gustav Klimt group.
Besides its collection of objects of art where the modest and pretentious may be alike served, the Miethke Gallery of Fine Arts publishes works of Art in a manner such as to satisfay the most of modern demands. William Unger's Etchings ''The Imperial Royal Belvedere Gallery'', justified their publication and the sensation this work created in its time has even been surpassed by that of ''A Century of Austrian Painting 1800-1900''. (At present Monographs of Gustav Klimt and Ferdinand Hodler are in preparation.) It was the Miethke Fine Art Gallery which by holding systematic exhibitions again awakened interest and understanding for the importance and charm of the old
Vienna Masters."

Catalogue in three languages (English, French, German).