Charles Wheeler (painter)

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Charles Arthur Wheeler OBE (born January 4, 1880 in Dunedin , New Zealand , † October 26, 1977 in Melbourne , Australia ) was a New Zealand-Australian painter .

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Charles Wheeler was born as the son of John Edward Wheeler and his wife Victoria Julia. Francis born. After the death of the father, the mother and the family moved to Australia in the Williamstown district of Melbourne around 1891 . Charles Wheeler began an apprenticeship as a lithographer in 1895 and an art education at a Working Men's College in 1896. From 1898 he made an evening study of drawing at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School with Frederick McCubbin , from 1904 to 1906 he studied in the class of painting with Lindsay Bernard Hall .

From 1908 he had his first solo exhibitions with the support of the Victorian Artists Society. 1910 bought Art Gallery of New South Wales to be 1909's painting The portfolio and the National Gallery of Victoria earned The Poem . In 1912 he had an exhibition at the Melbourne Athenaeum .

From 1912 he traveled to Europe. He went first to London and then to Madrid and Paris, where he exhibited the picture Le Printemps in the Salon de Paris in 1913 . In 1914 he went to the Netherlands and then returned to London. During the First World War he served as a sergeant in the 22nd Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his service in the Battle of Vimy . After the end of the First World War, he took a studio in Chelsea . In 1919 he exhibited the paintings Autumn Afternoon and Golden Hours at the Royal Academy of Arts in London .

In 1920 he returned to Australia and became one of the most famous Australian painters, especially of portraits, nudes and later landscapes. He taught drawing and painting at Melbourne Technical School . In 1922 he had an exhibition at the Melbourne Athenaeum. From 1927 he was assistant drawing teacher at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School. From 1935 he taught there as a drawing teacher and from 1939 as a painting teacher; from 1939 to 1945 he was the head of the school.

In fifteen years between 1923 and 1943 he was a finalist of the Archibald Prize with a total of 25 portraits , which he won in 1933 for his portrait of Ambrose Pratt . In 1931 and 1934 he received the George Crouch Prize for Contemporary Art from the Art Gallery of Ballarat .

In 1970 his last exhibition took place at the Melbourne Athenaeum. His work can be found in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria , the National Portrait Gallery , the Australian War Memorial , the Castlemaine Art Gallery and the University of Melbourne .

Honors

literature

  • Mark Pennings: Charles Wheeler and the nude in Australia. Master thesis. University of Melbourne, Melbourne 1992, OCLC 221270911 .

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Year of birth according to the Australian Dictionary of Biography. In some other sources, the year of birth is given as 1881.
  2. ^ Mark Pennings: Fighting the donkey's tail: Charles wheeler and "ultra-modernism". In: Journal of Australian Studies. 16, 32, 1992, p. 19 ff., DOI: 10.1080 / 14443059209387083
  3. ^ The portfolio on the Art Gallery of New South Wales website
  4. ↑ The Poem on the National Gallery of Victoria website
  5. ^ Catalog Charles Wheeler
  6. ↑ Autumn Afternoon at sothebysaustralia.com.au
  7. ↑ The Melbourne Athenaeum in Pictures (PDF; 560 kB)
  8. ↑ Winner 1933 on artgallery.nsw.gov.au
  9. ^ Works by Charles Wheeler in the Art Gallery of New South Wales
  10. ^ Wheeler, Charles (1881–1977) on the Castlemaine Art Gallery website
personal data
SURNAME Wheeler, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wheeler, Charles Arthur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand-Australian painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Dunedin , New Zealand
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1977
Place of death Melbourne , Australia