Eugene von Guérard
North-east view from the northern top of Mount Kosciusko, 1863
Oil on canvas 66 x 116 cm
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Eugene von Guérard
Mount William and part of the Grampians in West Victoria, 1865
Oil on cardboard 30 x 40 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Collier Bequest, 1955
Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed The Queensland Art Gallery presents a major retrospective of the work of Eugene von Guérard (1811–1901), one of Australia’s most renowned colonial landscape painters. From 17 December 2011 to 4 March 2012.]]>
Source: Queensland Art Gallery / theartwolf.com
The exhibition features over 65 works from throughout von Guérard’s 50-year career, including many of his iconic landscapes such as “Weatherboard Creek Falls, Jamieson’s Valley, New South Wales” (1862) or “North-east view from the northern top of Mount Kosciusko” (1863).
“Eugene von Guérard is arguably Australia’s most important colonial landscape painter“, said Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood, adding that von Guérard’s meticulous landscapes were remarkable in their detail. Moreover, “[von Guérard’s works] are valuable to this day, not only as paintings but as a reference for scientists and geologists observing environmental change“.
Eugene von Guérard was born in Vienna in 1811 and trained as a painter in the European art centres of Rome, Naples and Düsseldorf, before migrating to Australia in 1852.
“Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed” also includes two sketchbooks documenting the Sicilian expedition made by von Guérard and his father in 1834.
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