Galerie Miethke

[1] The art dealership, based in Vienna on Plankengasse 6, was granted by imperial decree in 1868 the exclusive rights to produce copies of the esteemed works from the Belvedere Gallery, planning to issue the best masterpieces in large volumes as photographic reproductions.

It contained masterpieces by Meissonier, Troyon, Roybet, Corot, Leempoels, Pradilla, Rumpler, Molitor, Giacomo Favretto, Achenbach, Stuck, Gabriël, Max, Grützner, Burne-Jones, and more.

"[3] The gallery presented the large artwork which was part of a batch of valuable pieces by old Dutch masters that Miethke had obtained from a Scottish private collection a few years earlier.

On 17 October 1896, the Miethke Gallery hosted an exhibition of a collection of about 300 pieces by Viennese landscape artist Robert Russ, which included finished paintings, studies, pencil sketches, watercolors, and gouache works.

[14] Galerie Miethke in December 1897 curated an exhibition that included all the artworks that German painter Franz von Stuck had produced in recent times.

The Franz Stuck exhibition included the following paintings: "The Fall of Man", "Paradise Lost", "Procession of Bacchantes", "The Bad Conscience", "Sin", and a portrait of Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria.

That year, Carl Moll, an Austrian painter of the Vienna Secession, was installed as artistic consultant and organized significant exhibitions.

[17] The first floor of Galerie Miethke was filled with the works of artists like Franz Stuck, Fritz von Uhde, Adolf Hengeler, Julius and Wilhelm Diez, Hans Harburger, Fritz Hegenbart, Walter Geffcken, Josef Willroider, Nikolaos Gyzis, Count Freiburg, Hans Reinhold Lichtenberger, Gino Parin, Carl Friedrich, Benno Becker, among others.

It was the first time the Wiener Werkstätte presented to a local audience, featuring major works by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Carl Otto Czeschka.

[19] In January 1906, the gallery under Moll's creative direction, held an exhibition of 45 works by Vincent van Gogh at Galerie Miethke's Dorotheergasse venue.

Dr. Hugo Haberfeld, an art historian, journalist, and writer from Vienna, started co-managing Galerie Miethke with Carl Moll in 1907.

[28] An exhibition of works by French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec from the collection of Alfred Walter Heymel was notably arranged in autumn of 1909.

[23] Under Haberfeld's direction, Galerie Miethke hosted an exhibition titled 'The New Art' (German: Die Neue Kunst) from January through February 1913.

[33] From January to February 1912, Miethke Gallery held exhibitions of French Masters, including Renoir, Pissarro, Manet, Sisley, Courbet, Cezanne, and D'Espagnat.