Louis Tannert
Louis August Ludwig Tannert (born October 28, 1831 in Leipzig , Kingdom of Saxony , † March 26, 1915 in Melbourne , Australia ) was a German-Australian genre and portrait painter , art teacher and curator .
Life
As a “newer artist” Tannert was tangible in Saxony in 1867. In 1873 he lived in Düsseldorf - Pempelfort and created genre motifs in the late romantic style of the Düsseldorf School . In 1876 his painting The Good Censorship was featured as an illustration in the magazine Die Gartenlaube .
On board the HMS Kent , Tannert reached Melbourne, the capital of Victoria in Australia, on December 17, 1876 . From 1880 he lived in Adelaide , South Australia . In Australia he mainly appeared as a genre painter, but also as a portrait painter. On the recommendation of the painter Eugene von Guerard , he was offered the position of headmaster of the South Australian School of Design , which he held from 1881 to 1892. There he also taught mixed evening courses for male and female students. From 1882 to 1889 he was also the curator of the Art Gallery of South Australia . He died at the age of 84 in Melbourne, at the Old Colonists Home, Rushall Crescents.
literature
- Tannert, Louis . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume 2, p. 873.
- Tannert, Louis . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938.
Web links
- Louis Tannert , life data in the agsa.sa.gov.au portal
- Louis Tannert , biographical data on the daao.org.au portal
- Louis Tannert , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
- Louis Tannert , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolph Meyer's Art Auction XLIII. Auction of excellent oil paintings and original copperplate engravings from the publisher Joh. Friedr. Frauenholz in Nuremberg to Dresden . Catalog, E. Blochmann & Sohn, Dresden 1867, p. 13, No. 102 ( Google Books )
- ↑ Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office Düsseldorf , 1873, p. 129 ( digitized version )
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
- ↑ Die Gartenlaube , 1876, p. 105
- ↑ Tim Bonyhady: The Colonial Image. Australian Painting, 1800-1880 . Australian National Gallery, Ellsyd Press, Chippendale / New South Wales 1987, p. 100 f.
- ↑ Ron Radford, Jane Hylton: Australian Colonial Art, 1800-1900 . Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1995, ISBN 978-0-7308-3017-7 , p. 122
- ^ Jane Hylton: South Australian Women Artists: Paintings from the 1890s to the 1940s . Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1994, p. 6
- ^ Wilfrid Perst, Kerrie Round, Carol S. Fort: The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History . Wakefield Press, Kent Town / South Australia 2001, ISBN 978-1-86254-559-5 , p. 396
- ^ The Age (Melbourne, Victoria: 1854–1954), Saturday, March 27, 1915 issue
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tannert, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tannert, August Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Australian genre painter, portrait painter, art teacher and curator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig , Kingdom of Saxony |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1915 |
| Place of death | Melbourne , Australia |