Friedrich Gauermann: 9 cool facts

Friedrich Gauermann (10 September 1807, Scheuchenstein [de] – 7 July 1862) was an Austrian painter. The son of the landscape painter Jacob Gauermann (1773–1843), he was born at Miesenbach near Gutenstein in Lower Austria. He was an before representative of the Veristic style devoted to birds in whatever its diversity.

It was the ambition of his daddy that Gauermann should devote himself to agriculture, but the example of an elder brother, who, however, died early, fostered his inclination towards art. Under his father’s government he began studies in landscape, and he plus diligently copied the works of the chief masters in animal painting which were contained in college circles and court library of Vienna. In the summer he made art tours in the districts of Styria, Tirol, and Salzburg.

Two animal pieces which he exhibited at the Vienna Exhibition of 1824 were regarded as remarkable productions for his years, and led to his receiving commissions in 1825 and 1826 from Prince Metternich and Caraman, the French ambassador. His reputation was greatly increased by his picture The Storm, exhibited in 1829, and from that epoch his works were much sought after and obtained correspondingly tall prices. His Field Labourer was regarded by many as the most noteworthy portray in the Vienna exhibition of 1834, and his numerous animal pieces have entitled him to a place in the first rank of painters of that class of subjects.

The eccentricity of his pictures is the representation of human and animal figures in connexion bearing in mind appropriate landscapes and in characteristic situations hence as to manifest birds as a successful whole, and he particularly excels in depicting the clear life of animals in wild mountain scenery. Along with good mastery of the technicalities of his art, his works exhibit compliant and Eager observation, free and precise handling of details, and bold and determined colouring. He died at Vienna on 7 July 1862.

Many of his pictures have been engraved, and after his death a selection of fifty-three of his works was prepared for this wish by the Austrian Kunstverein (Art Union).

His art has influenced accompanied by others the works of Joseph Heicke.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). “Gauermann, Friedrich”. Encyclopædia Britannica. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.