“Adolescence was a widely explored theme in art around 1900. In Adolescentia, a painting steeped in symbolism, Elena Luksch-Makowsky captured this fragile state on the threshold between childish play and awakening sexual interest: Slightly ungainly yet confident nonetheless, a larger-than-life girl is shown standing in a meadow covered with spring flowers. Some distance away, young, pubescent men visibly react to her presence. Born into a family of artists in St. Petersburg, the painter had moved to Vienna with her husband, the sculptor Richard Luksch. Here the artist worked in various media, creating both paintings and designs for sculptures”.

fonte dalla didascalia del quadro di Elena Luksch-Makawsky Adolescentia ubicato nel museo Belvedere (Wien)