Orazio Gaigher
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.
literature
- Dankmar Trier: Gaigher, Orazio . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 47, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22787-6 , pp. 276 f.
- Heinrich Hammer : Gaigher, Horazio . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 73 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Fiorenzo Degasperi (Ed.): Orazio Gaigher: 1870-1938. Exhibition catalog. Trento: Il Castello, 1996.
Web links
- Literature by and about Orazio Gaigher in the bibliographic database WorldCat
personal data | |
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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 |