Orazio Gaigher

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Self portrait
Bishop Franz Egger (1914)
Ex libris for Franz Egger (1914)

Orazio Gaigher , also Horazio , Horatius , (born April 20, 1870 in Levico , Austria-Hungary ; died May 17, 1938 in Meran , Italy ) was an Austro-Italian painter .

Life

Orazio Gaigher studied medicine in Innsbruck and after completing his doctorate worked as a general practitioner in Salzburg . The painter Hubert von Herkomer was his patient and influenced him to give up the medical profession in 1901 and to pursue his autodidactic talent as a painter with him in London . He also made a trip to Spain with Herkomer and was impressed by Diego Velázquez . In Paris he was tutored by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre , Tony Robert-Fleury and Eugène Carrière , and he befriended Romualdo Prati from Trentino . In 1907 he stayed in Rome . He lived and worked in Madonna di Campiglio in summer and in Meran in winter , where he promoted art. In 1915 he received a gold medal for portraits of Popes Pius X and Benedict XV at the World Exhibition in San Francisco . From 1928 to 1930 he stayed in Patagonia . In addition to portraits, genre paintings, altarpieces and South Tyrolean landscapes, he drew and etched and made ex-libris .

Illustrations

  • Attilio Catterina: The hernia operation according to Bassini. With 16 (15 color) plates after pictures by Horatius Gaigher. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1933.

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SURNAME Gaigher, Orazio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaigher, Orazio Antonio; Gaigher, Horazio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Levico Terme
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1938
Place of death Meran