Gustav Gaul

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Gustav Gaul (born February 6, 1836 in Vienna , † September 7, 1888 in Vorderbrühl, today part of the city of Mödling) was an Austrian portrait and history painter .

Life

Gustav Gaul: Portrait of the prima ballerina Bertha Linda (the wife of the painter Hans Makart ), 1883
Grave at the Hinterbrühl cemetery

Gustav Gaul was the older son of the painter Franz Gaul ; his younger brother was the later painter Franz Xaver Gaul . Gaul received his first instruction from his father; sponsored by this Gaul was a student at the art academy of his hometown. His teachers there included Robert Theer ( watercolor painting ) and Carl Rahl (history painting ).

After five years Gaul left the art academy , went on a study trip to Northern Italy and later spent several weeks in Dresden to study the Venetians . In 1855 Gaul was invited to present some of his pictures (some studies after Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens ) at the world exhibition in Paris .

Several study trips followed through France and the Netherlands , from which he brought back many landscape sketches, which could be found in his history pictures from time to time.

One of his largest commissioned works was the decoration of a hall in the Palais Todesco in Vienna. On behalf of the banker Eduard von Todesco , Gaul designed a ceiling painting in tempera with the procession of Bacchus and scenes from the myth of Cupid , Psyche and Venus .

Gustav Gaul died on September 7, 1888 at the age of 52 in Vorderbrühl or in Hinterbrühl , where his grave is also located, in which his brother was later buried and which was later converted into a grave of honor.

reception

It took Gaul a long time to find his own style; For a long time he was somewhat in the shadow of his teacher Carl Rahl. In his genre pieces there is a turn to French models, which he developed further in terms of colors. Many important personalities from the Vienna Burgtheater can be found in his portraits .

In 1957, Gaulgasse in Vienna- Liesing (23rd district) was named after him.

Works (selection)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Gaul in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna . The address Brühlerstraße 71 is on the municipal boundary. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  2. ^ Gaul " Gustav + Gaul + †. In:  Die Presse , September 7, 1888, p. 14 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr

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personal data
SURNAME Gaul, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1888
Place of death Mödling