Gilbert of Canal
Gilbert Stefan Anton Ernst von Canal (* 26. December 1849 in Ljubljana , Crown Land Krain , Empire Austria , † 8. December 1927 in Dresden , Saxony ) was an Austrian landscape and marine painter and watercolorist of the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Von Canal briefly studied music at the University of Vienna and with Anton Bruckner at the Vienna Conservatory . He received artistic training as a painter from 1874 at the Vienna Art Academy , where he was taught by Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels and Carl Wurzinger . At the suggestion of Josef Willroider , he went to Düsseldorf in 1878 , where he lived until 1894/1895, married Ida Louise Elisabeth Baum in 1881 and joined the Malkasten artists' association from 1882 to 1894belonged to. From 1880 he traveled several times from Düsseldorf to Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as England and Lower Germany. From 1894/1895 he lived in Munich .
Von Canal, who carried the title of royal professor in Munich , was a painter who was influenced by Andreas Achenbach's romantic conception of landscape as well as by Dutch painting of the Golden Age and - based on this art - atmospheric , scenic views of historic cities, villages, Castles, palaces and mills as well as river and coastal landscapes. He was often represented at art exhibitions in Berlin (from 1880), Munich (from 1883) and Düsseldorf. His paintings were acquired by many public museums, including the Neue Pinakothek (Alter Schlossgraben in Westphalia, evening peace, mood near Dordrecht) , the National Gallery Berlin (Westphalian Mill) , the Städtische Galerie Düsseldorf (thunderstorm mood) and the New Museum Weimar (evening mood) .
literature
- Canal, Gilbert of . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 487 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Canal, Gilbert of . In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 , Volume 1 (Lfg. 2, 1954), p. 134.
- Elisabeth Hülmbauer (adaptation): Art of the 19th century. Inventory catalog of the Austrian Gallery of the 19th Century . Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna 1992, volume 1, p. 138.
- Robert Wlattnig: Canal, Gilbert von . In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon , Volume 16 (1997), p. 88.
Web links
- Gilbert von Canal , biographical data sheet on the rkd.nl portal( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Gilbert von Canal , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 428
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| SURNAME | Canal, Gilbert of |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Canal, Gilbert Stefan Anton Ernst von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German landscape and marine painter as well as watercolorist of the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Laibach |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1927 |
| Place of death | Dresden , Free State of Saxony |