Spring, Portrait of Ilona Lippich
by LOTZ, Károly, Oil on canvas, 113 x 81 cm
Towards the end of his career Lotz painted several elongated pictures portraying beautiful women. In this particular portrait he seated his model in front of a landscape, but the emphasis is on the depiction of the person rather than that of nature. The charming, youthful figure is dressed is white, she bolds a colourful bouquet of wild flowers in her hand. The general effect of the painting brings in mind the colours and ambiance of English portrait paintings at the end of the century.