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Self-Portrait with Cigarette
Date1871

Künstler*in Anselm Feuerbach (1829 Speyer – 1880 Venedig)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
62,5 × 49,5 cm
SignatureSign. und dat. links oben: A. Feuerbach s. ips. R 71.
Inventory number2093
Locations Belvedere, Upper Belvedere, 1. Floor (east), Room NO1
Anselm Feuerbach only shows his face in profile in this self-portrait. In stylish urban attire, with perfectly coiffured hair, neatly groomed mustache, and a cigarette held casually in his hand, he presents himself as an elegant dandy. Many other self-portraits show him in the same nonchalant pose. This portrait was painted in Rome, where the artist lived for a long time before being summoned to the Vienna art academy in 1873. He taught there as a professor for three years, during which time he painted monumental scenes from classical mythology on the ceiling of the main hall. The most prominent figure in the Vienna art world at the time, however, was Hans Makart, whose sensuous salon paintings were in marked contrast to Feuerbach’s lucid style. It is quite likely that it was this rivalry that prompted Feuerbach to depart again from Vienna soon afterward.

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1907 Widmung Rosa von Gerold an Kaiserliche Gemäldegalerie
1921 Übernahme aus dem Kunsthistorischen Museum, Wien

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