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GAUERMANN, FRIEDRICH (1807-1862)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 532 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GAUERMANN, See also:FRIEDRICH (1807-1862) , See also:Austrian painter, son of the landscape painter See also:Jacob Gauermann (1773-1843), was See also:born at Wiesenbach near Gutenstein in See also:Lower See also:Austria on the loth of See also:September 1807. It was the intention of his See also:father that he should devote himself to See also:agriculture, but the example of an See also:elder See also:brother, who, however, died See also:early, fostered his inclination towards See also:art. Under his father's direction he began studies in landscape, and he also diligently copied the See also:works of the See also:chief masters in See also:animal See also:painting which were contained in the See also:academy and See also:court library of See also:Vienna. In the summer he made art See also:tours in the districts of See also:Styria, See also:Tirol and See also:Salzburg. Two animal pieces which he exhibited at the Vienna See also:Exhibition of 1824 were regarded as remarkable productions for his years, and led to his receiving commissions in 1825 and 1826 from See also:Prince Metternich and Caraman, the See also:French See also:ambassador. His reputation was greatly increased by his picture " The See also:Storm," exhibited in 1829, and from that See also:time his works were much sought after and obtained correspondingly high prices. His " See also:Field Labourer " was regarded by many as the most noteworthy picture in the Vienna exhibition of 1834, and his numerous animal pieces have entitled him to a See also:place in the first See also:rank of painters of that class of subjects. The peculiarity of his pictures is the See also:representation of human and animal figures in connexion with appropriate landscapes and in characteristic situations so as to See also:manifest nature as a living whole, and he particularly excels in depicting the See also:free See also:life of animals in See also:wild See also:mountain scenery. Along with See also:great mastery of the technicalities of his art, his works exhibit patient and keen observation, free and correct handling of details, and bold and clear colouring. He died at Vienna on the 7th of See also:July 1862. Many of his pictures have been engraved, and after his See also:death a selection of fifty-three of his works was prepared for this purpose by the Austrian Kunstverein (Art See also:Union).See also:language, a See also:ship is said to have the See also:weather See also:gage when she is to windward of another, and similarly the See also:lee gage when to leeward of another; in this sense the word is usually spelt " gage," a spelling which prevails in See also:America for all senses.

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