Francesco Gamba

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Francesco Gamba (born December 21, 1818 in Turin , Kingdom of Sardinia ; † May 10, 1887 ibid) was an Italian landscape and marine painter as well as engraver , curator and author of art historical writings.

Life

Gamba was one of three sons of Baron Alberto Gamba, an 1835 ennobled official of the Regia Camera de 'Conti of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont, and his Mannheim- born wife Maria Martha, née Borgnis (1794-1864). His brothers were Enrico Gamba (1831–1883), who later became a genre painter, and Alberto Gamba (1822–1901), who became a doctor and anatomy professor. Gamba first studied law; At the same time he began to train as a painter in courses at the Accademia Albertina . As early as 1842 he took part in an exhibition of the Turin Art Association (Società promotrice delle belle arti di Torino) . In the years 1842 to 1845 he toured Italy, especially Rome , Naples and Venice . In 1846 he exhibited the resulting paintings for sale in Turin, where they were acquired in particular by the rising bourgeoisie of Turin.

Scoliere di Helgoland (Cliffs of Helgoland) , 1879

Between 1845 and 1855 there followed a phase in which Gamba made contact with painters from the Barbizon School and the Düsseldorf School of Painting on study trips to Europe and was artistically influenced by them, in particular by Andreas Achenbach and Hermann Mevius . The landscape painting created under this influence was celebrated as "nuova scuola piemontese". At the beginning of the 1850s, members of the royal family and the aristocracy of Sardinia-Piedmont also bought his works. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1855 , Gamba exhibited the now lost painting Burrasca contro le scogliere di Porto Venere , with which he probably dated Achenbach's Tramonto dopo un temporale a Porto Venere nel golfo della Spezia (Sunset after a storm near Porto Venere on the Gulf of Spezia) .

In 1858, Gamba began to combine his navies with the representation of scenes from historical naval battles. In this year he painted the painting L'indomani della battaglia di Trafalgar , in which he treated the battle of Trafalgar . In the mid-1860s he returned to his “pure” landscape and marine painting, which contemporary Italian art critics perceived as a reference to Dutch painting of the Golden Age . They particularly emphasized the almost monotonous color palette in Gamba's painting, which was unusual for Italian painters at the time.

In 1869, Gamba was appointed director of the Pinacoteca Albertina , the royal collection of paintings in Turin. From 1863 to 1867 he was on the board of the Turin City Museum. In 1880 he served as chairman of the art department of the Turin National Exhibition (Esposizione nazionale di Torino) .

Fonts

  • Abbadia di S. Antonio di Ranverso e Defendente De Ferrari da Chivasso , pittore dell'ultimo de 'Paleologi , Turin 1876.
  • with Giovanni Vico: Indicazione sommaria dei quadri e dei capi d'arte della R. Pinacoteca di Torino. Con indice alfabetico de 'nomi e soprannomi degli artisti e numeri corrispondenti alle opere ivi esposte , Turin 1879.
  • L'arte antica in Piemonte , Turin 1882.

literature

Web links

Commons : Francesco Gamba  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 430.
personal data
SURNAME Gamba, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter, engraver, curator and author of art historical writings
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin , Kingdom of Sardinia
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1887
Place of death Turin , Italy