(1811 - 1901)

EUGENEVON

GUÉRARD

BIBLIOGRAPHY• Birth: Vienna, Austria (1811).• Age 15: Embarked on on a tour of

Italy with his Father.

In Rome von Guérard studied under Giovanni Battista Bassi who was interested in the tradition of the great seventeenth-century landscape artists such as Claude Lorrain and Nicholas Poussin, and who sought ‘truth’ in his landscape painting.

Traditionally landscape painting had been seen as secondary to other genres such as history painting or portraiture.

• Arrived in Australia: 1852 during the Gold Rush.

PRACTICE• Used sketches to help paint landscapes

from memory• Fluid, fast manner• Not waiting for paint to dry• Concentrating on the image small section

by small section• Used a very fine brush and a magnifying

glass to achieve extraordinary detail

• Interests: • Landscape• A sense of place• Beauty and grandeur of God’s creation • Geology• Geography• Vegetation

• Forms: Oil on canvas, oil on paper, sketches, and lithograph.

“A fig tree on American Creek near Wollongong, NSW” by Eugene Von Guerard (1861). Oil on canvas. 83.7 x 66.1 cmFurther info on this painting: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/398.1996/

PRACTICE•He would ‘cheat’ by including elements in the image that were not actually present in reality, to enhance to success of the composition to circulate the eye of the viewer.

“North East View from the Top of Mount Kosciusko, New South Wales” by Eugene Von Guerard (circa 1866). Colour lithograph, printed on white wove paper. 31.4 x 49.5 cm image

Further info on this painting: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/9739/

PRACTICE•He would would symbols of rays sunlight or soaring birds to represent God, and Aboriginal figures as a cultural identity of the landscapes he painted.

•What Frame/s would that come under?

INFLUENCES• Influences: •Traditional European style landscape•Cezanne•Religion•Scientific observations and

developing theories• Love of geology and vegetation•Nazarenes

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807 - 1863)

Schirmers’ tradition was built on the work of seventeenth century who composed poetic and expressive views of the natural world based on sketches and studies made directly from nature

EXAMPLES OF HIS WORK

EXAMPLES OF HIS WORK

EXAMPLES OF HIS WORK

EXAMPLES OF HIS WORK

EXAMPLES OF HIS WORK

EXAMPLES OF HIS WORK