Kārlis Hūns
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Kārlis Hūns , also Karl Huhn , ( Russian Карл Фёдорович Гун ; born November 13, 1831 in Madliena , Livonia Governorate ; † January 28, 1877 in Davos ) was a Baltic-German genre painter .
Life
Hūns was born in 1831 as the son of the school teacher and organ player Karl Friedrich Hūns and his wife Louise Dorothea Vogel. He studied from 1852 to 1861 at the St. Petersburg Art Academy with Pyotr Wassiljewitsch Bassin and Iwan Iwanowitsch Wistelius . He then traveled through Russia with the painter Vasily Vasilyevich Wereschtschagin . In the Pokrov Church in Yelabuga , the artists together painted the iconostasis of the church. Hūns also made numerous portraits of the rural population, of which 61 chromo-lithographs were published in 1862 in Theodore de Paulys Les Peuples de la Russie . From May to November 1863 Hūns traveled to Germany and then in December 1863 to Paris, where he moved into a studio at 21 rue Clauzel. He joined the painter and artist group around the art dealer Julien "Père" Tanguy . The history and genre painters Paul Delaroche , Ernest Meissonier and Gustave Ricard became important role models for him . Hūns was also the private tutor of Napoleon III's wife . , Empress Eugenie .
In February 1870 Kārlis Hūns returned to St. Petersburg, where he was appointed professor of painting at the Art Academy the following year. Until 1876 the artist headed the class for portrait and history painting. In 1874 he married Vera Monighetti, the daughter of the Swiss-Russian architect Ippolito Monighetti . Kārlis Hūns died of tuberculosis during a spa stay in Davos at the age of 45 and was buried in his native Madliena.
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Kārlis Hūns mainly worked with oil and watercolor painting. His preferred subjects included historical events, scenes from Russian and Baltic folk life, as well as portraits and landscapes in lifelike and detailed representations. As a teacher at the St. Petersburg Art Academy, he had a major influence on Russian history painting. He is considered a pioneer of Latvian history and landscape painting.
Exhibitions
- 1865–1870: Salon de Paris
- from 1871: Peredvižniki exhibition (traveling exhibition, including 1873 and 1875 in Riga)
- 1873: Vienna
literature
- Kārlis Hūns . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 75, de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023180-9 , p. 428.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chicken, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 101 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hūns, Kārlis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hūns, Kārlis Jēkabs Vilhelms (full name); Hūns, Teodors Vilhelms; Chicken, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baltic-German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madliena , Livonia Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1877 |
| Place of death | Davos |