Heinrich SCHLIMARSKI ✿

Heinrich Hans Schlimarski (Olomouc, 1859 - Hainburg, 1913) was a Czech portrait, genre and history painter and pastellist.

He moved with the family to the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at an early age. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with August Eisenmenger (1830 – 1907), who was an Austrian history and portrait painter in the era of the Ringstrasse and Wilhelminian style, and Hans Makart (1840 – 1884), who was the most famous Austrian academic history and portrait painter of that period.

Heinrich Hans Schlimarski was considered the most gifted student of Makart and became his collaborator, together they signed many large-format works. He went on study trips to Munich and Italy and on his return he lived mainly in Vienna working for the Viennese high society as a portrait, genre and history painter. A substantial part of its production is made up of female portraits, large decoration works and oriental subjects. Many of his works became so famous that they were reproduced in prints, illustrated books and postcards.