Eugene von Guerard

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Eugene von Guerard ( attributed to Friedrich Boser )
View of Geelong , 1856
Bushfire between Mount Elephant and Timboon , 1857
Stony Rises, Lake Corangamite , 1857
North-east View of the Northern Top of the Mount Kosciusko , 1863
View of the Granite Rocks at Cape Woolamai , 1872

Eugene von Guerard (baptized as Johann Joseph Eugen von Guérard ; born November 19, 1811 in Vienna , † April 17, 1901 in London ) was an Austrian - Australian - British painter who had the most important period of his artistic work in the years 1852 to 1882 spent in Australia .

Artistic career

With his father Bernhard von Guérard , a portrait and miniature painter of the Viennese nobility, he traveled through Italy and came into contact with the Nazarenes in Rome . From 1838 to 1851/52 he stayed in Düsseldorf , where he deepened landscape painting with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer from 1841 to 1847 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . From 1848 to 1851/52 Guerard was a member of the Malkasten artists' association .

In what is now the Australian state of Victoria , then a British crown colony , he worked temporarily and unsuccessfully as a gold digger after he had tried his luck in the California gold rush in 1852 . As a painter, he recorded the life of the gold diggers in detailed pictures and diary notes. After the gold digging, he married on July 15, 1854 in the St Francis' Church Melbourne Louise Arnz (1817-1891) from Düsseldorf, the daughter of the publisher Heinrich Arnz . His paintings, which he created during extensive tours in Australia and New Zealand, partly in connection with scientific expeditions, soon earned him the reputation of the leading landscape painter in these colonies. His paintings have been exhibited in the National Gallery of Victoria . His paintings View of Geelong (1856), North-east View from the Northern Top of Mount Kosciusko (1863) and Valley of the Mitta Mitta (1866) were great successes . At the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne he was hired in 1870 as the first "Master of the School of Painting". He then held the teaching post for eleven years until the end of 1881. Health reasons had prompted the abandonment of his teaching activity. Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts were among his students.

In 1882 Guerard moved back to Europe. After his wife's death in 1891, he lost his savings in 1893 when Australian banks collapsed. So he died impoverished in London. He was survived by his only daughter Victoria, who was born in Melbourne on September 4, 1857 and married Reginald Blunt on December 20, 1885 in Düsseldorf.

Guerard's paintings are now occasionally sold at auctions. A portrait of Guérard, which shows him covered with a fez in 1838 , is preserved in the friendship gallery of 57 individual portraits of the Düsseldorf painting students and their friends (1835–1845).

Official honors

In 1870, Guerard was of Franz Joseph I of the Order of Franz Joseph awarded.

literature

Web links

Commons : Eugene von Guerard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marjorie J. Tipping: Johann Joseph Eugen von Guerard (1812–1901) , article in the Australian Dictionary of Biography , Vol. 4, 1972, accessed on the portal adb.anu.edu.au on August 20, 2013
  2. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Vol. 2, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , p. 28
  3. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 145
  4. ↑ Eugene von Guerard: Journal of an Australian Gold Digger (diary of an Australian gold digger, August 18, 1852 to March 16, 1854), typewritten document as a translation of his original notes written in German, State Library New South Wales, in the portal acms.sl .nsw.gov.au, accessed on August 20, 2013
  5. ↑ Candice Bruce: The Studio of Eugene von Guerard . In: Wessel Reinink, Jeroen Stumpel (Ed.): Memory & Oblivion. Proceedings of the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art Held in Amsterdam, September 1-7, 1996 . Springer-Science + Business Media, Dordrecht 1999, ISBN 978-94-010-5771-4 , Volume 1, p. 868
  6. ^ Axel Altenweger: Painting "Klostergut Wiebrechtshausen" by Eugene von Guerard. Ev. Lutheran parish Langenholtensen, accessed on July 28, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel, ibid, No. 14
personal data
SURNAME Guerard, Eugene von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1901
Place of death London