T HE MIETHKE Fine Art Gallery, Vienna I., 
Dorotheergasse 11, is the principal depot in 
Austria-Hungary for the sale of paintings and 
other works of art. It was established in 1861 and 
in 1895 was removed to its present premises, 
Count Nako’s Palace which was specially adapted 
for the requirements of this important business. 
Especial attention is given to Italian, Dutch, 
German and French paintings from the thirteenth 
Century to the present time. It was from this 
Gallery of Fine Arts that the principal works of 
Crivelli, Alantegna, Verrocchio, Perugino, Palma 
Vecchio, Altdorfer, Dürer, Holbein, Cranach, Memling, 
Lukas van Leyden Rembrandt, Rubens, van Dyck, 
Tiepolo,Fragonard, Reynolds,Gainsborough,Hogarth, 
Constable, Turner, Delacroix, Corot,Diaz, Daubigny, 
Millet, Monticelli, Courbet, Waldmüller, Manet, 
Menzel, Uhde, van Gogh, Gauguin etc. found their 
way to the galleries of the Continent and the 
various collections of European and American 
amateurs. Up to the present time the Miethke Fine 
Art Gallery has arranged no less than 106 Auction- 
Sales which were not only important events from 
the point of view of Art but also of Society. Among 
others the following collections were disposed of 
Artaria, Eggers, Graf Hoyos, Bühlmeyer, v.Klinkosch, 
Todesco, Stametz-Meyer and also those left at their 
death by Hans Makart, J. E. Schindler,Viktor Tilgner, 
A. Pettenkofen, Charlotte Wolter and Rudolf von 
Alt. 
The Miethke Fine Art Gallery has always considered 
it their chief aim to actively promote the Austrian 
and especially the Viennese painters, just as in the 
seventies and eighties of the past Century it firmly 
supported von Alt, Makart, Pettenkofen, Schindler 
and Schwaiger, it is now the centre of the Gustav 
Klimt group. 
Besides its collection of objects of art where the 
modest and pretentious may be alike served, the 
Miethke Gallery of Fine Arts publishes works of 
Art in a manner such as to satisfay the most 
of modern demands. William Unger’s Etchings 
“The Imperial Royal Belvedere Gallery“, justified 
their publication and the Sensation this work 
created in its time has even been surpassed by that 
of “A Century of Austrian Painting 1800-1900“. (At 
present Monographs of Gustav Klimt and Ferdinand 
Hodler are in preparation.) It was the Miethke 
Fine Art Gallery which by holding systematic 
exhibitions again awakened interest and under- 
sianding for the importance and charm of the old 
Vienna Masters.