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FRIEDRICH GAUERMANN (1807-1862)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 532 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRIEDRICH See also:GAUERMANN (1807-1862)  , See also:Austrian painter, son of the landscape painter See also:Jacob See also: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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