Oil sketches which served as preparatory works and as a means to attract potential patrons evolved during the nineteenth century into works of their own. Coordinator Martha Hanreich and members of WA were guided through the Belvedere’s exhibition of oil studies, comprising works by Caspar David Friedrich, Hans Makart, Ernst Klimt, Adalbert Stifter, Tina Blau and many others.
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