Wilhelm Gause

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Wilhelm Gause (around 1916)

Wilhelm Gause (born March 27, 1853 in Krefeld , Rhine Province ; † June 13, 1916 in Stein an der Donau , Lower Austria ) was a German-Austrian portrait and genre painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf School . His group portraits , which depict social life and special social events in Vienna in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, are of particular importance .

Life

The new art academy , illustration in the magazine Die Gartenlaube , 1879

Gause studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1870 to 1872 . There Andreas and Karl Müller , Wilhelm Lotz , Heinrich Lauenstein and Wilhelm Roßmann were his teachers. He also took lessons from the painter Eduard von Gebhardt from 1871 . In Düsseldorf Gause was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . In 1879 he moved to Vienna , where he settled in Währing and made a name for himself as a gouache draftsman and newspaper illustrator . His specialty was emphasized realistic depictions of everyday life in Vienna and social events such as balls and celebrations. He drew for domestic and foreign newspapers, including for Die Gartenlaube and the Illustrirte Zeitung . A client and close friend was the Viennese columnist Eduard Pötzl . Gause regularly sent important Austrian and international exhibitions. He received an honorary diploma at the International Watercolor Exhibition in Dresden in 1889 and a silver medal at an exhibition of newspapers and illustration works in Paris . In 1889 he moved to Stein an der Donau . His three daughters Mini, Grete and Isolde also devoted themselves to painting. The youngest, Isolde (1905–1977), was a student of Eduard Zetsche .

Works (selection)

At the International Art Exhibition Vienna 1882 , 1882
A Sunday in the Egyptian Department of the Kunsthistorisches Museum , 1893
Court ball in Vienna , 1900
Ball of the City of Vienna , 1904
  • At the International Art Exhibition Vienna 1882 , oil on paper, 1882, Dahesh Museum of Art, New York City
  • A Sunday in the Egyptian Department of the Kunsthistorisches Museum , 1893, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
  • Carlsbad , 29 images as heliogravures by R. Paulussen, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1896
  • Court ball in Vienna , watercolor, 1900, Wien Museum
  • Ball of the City of Vienna , 1904
  • Viennese mood pictures , numerous illustrations in the book by Johannes Ziegler (with an introduction by Eduard Pötzl ), Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna 1907
  • Centenary of the Battle of Leipzig in front of the Schwarzenberg monument , 1912

literature

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Gause  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nos. 3952–3959 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
  2. ^ Robert Eigenberger: Gause, Wilhelm . 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. 281 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Inventory list , website in the portal malkasten.org , accessed on July 22, 2017
  4. ^ Elisabeth Heimann: Migration destination Vienna. The modern city as a center of attraction for artists and patrons. In: Elisabeth Röhrlich (Hrsg.): Migration and Innovation around 1900. Perspectives on Vienna at the turn of the century. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-20258-5 , p. 409 ( Google Books ).
  5. ^ At the Vienna International Art Exhibition of 1882 , website in the daheshmuseum.org portal , accessed on July 22, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Gause, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld , Rhine Province
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1916
Place of death Stein an der Donau , Lower Austria