Frederick McCubbin

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Self-portrait by Frederick McCubbin
The Letter (1884)
The pioneer (1904)

Frederick McCubbin (born February 25, 1855 in Melbourne , Australia , † December 20, 1917 ) was an Australian painter. He was an important representative of the Heidelberg School (after the Australian Heidelberg ), which represents one of the important periods in the history of the fine arts of Australia.

biography

Frederick McCubbin was born the third of eight children. His father Alexander McCubbin was a baker, his mother Anne McWilliams came from England. Frederick attended William Willmett's West Melbourne Common School and St Paul's School. He later worked for a time as an employee of a solicitor , then as a body painter. He also worked in his family's bakery while studying art at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School . At the National Gallery School he met Tom Roberts and studied with Eugene von Guerard . McCubbin also studied at the Victorian Academy of Art and exhibited there in 1876 and from 1879 to 1882. In 1880 he sold his first painting. During this period - after the death of his father - he also took over the management of the family business.

In the early 1880s, McCubbin's works began to attract some attention. He has received a number of awards from the National Gallery, including a first prize for painting and drawing in the annual exhibition for works of art students in 1883. From the mid-1880s onwards, McCubbin focused on the Australian bushland when choosing a subject. It was with this work that he later became best known.

In 1888 he became a teacher and master at the School of Design at the National Gallery . There he taught students who later became well-known Australian artists, including Charles Conder and Arthur Streeton .

McCubbin continued painting through the first two decades of the 20th century, with his health deteriorating at the start of the First World War . In 1907 he traveled to England , also visited Tasmania , but apart from these relatively brief excursions, he spent most of his life in Melbourne.

In March 1889, McCubbin married Annie Moriarty. The couple had seven children, son Louis of whom also became an artist.

In 1901 McCubbin and his family moved to Mount Macedon in the Australian state of Victoria . He had their prefabricated house in the English style built on the northern slopes of a mountain, which he named "Fontainebleau". In this environment he painted many pictures, including the work "The Pioneer". The house survived the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires and still stands today as McCubbin's artistic legacy. On Mount Macedon, the surrounding bushland inspired him to experiment with light and its effects on colors in nature.

McCubbin became a founding member of the Australian Arts Society in 1912. In 1917 he died of heart failure .

Works

In 1998, McCubbin's painting Bush Idyll (1893) sold for $ 2,312,500. That was a record price for an Australian painter.

literature

Web links

Commons : Frederick McCubbin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Thomas: McCubbin, Frederick (Fred) (1855-1917) . In: Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 10 . MUP . Pp. 242-243. 1986. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME McCubbin, Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Australia
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1917