Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 8 : Pressclippings, 1977-1981

AROUND THE GALLERIES The Eugen von Guerard cxhibi- goldfields, aborigir ~. . country with Pembroke Peak and Bower 11011 is travelling 10 major state homesteads, and_the11 earden , nnd Falls, New Zealand"' oil on canvas galleries and is at the Queensland of wMerfalls are tncluded . parnted 1877-9, on loan from the an Art Gallery, M.l.M . lluilding, Ann H,s ~ke1ch_books and h1hographs gallery or N.S.W. This large .:anvas Street , Brisbane, until August 31 . are al>o on display. . was awarded a "First degree of Von Guerard was curator of the . Von G~erard's 11)ethod, .the •~- Merit Special for Landscape Pain- Nn1ional Gallery, Victoria, from finite detail and patten~• cv_1dcnt'" ting" prize at an in1crna1lonal cx- 1870 to 1861 and was first painting the foreground , also_alhes his work, hibiti n, Melbourne, in 1880. Von ma, 1cr of the school. At that time to _s~'!'e degree, with that of the Guc,ard', use of light and dar, no life class was held . Students were p11m111ve Rousseau. However, von ~moo1h and textured surface, encouraged 10 copy picture, in the Guerard's colours arc more sombre . geometric structure, and tonal gallery. realism is evident. - PAMELA Von Guerard was the ~Oil of the • Pi 1urcd is " Milford Sound KING . court painter 10 the l".mpcror of Austria, FrallZ I. He a11cndcd an school, in llaly alld Gcrmally and the classical training he received there is reflected in the structure of his compositions and their realism. However, the stark loneliness and haunting quality of voll Guerard's works, the small scale ol man in relation 10 vast nature, ally these landscapes to those of Caspar David Friedrich, the German Romantic painter (1774-1840). Von Guerard 's sublime panoramic views inclu le the rugged peaks and snow surrou1,ding Mount Kosciusko (c.1864), the Grampians from the top of the Serra Range (1870) and Lake Wakatipu with Mount Earnslow, New Zealand (l 877-9) . Views of Ballarat pro! fie :l!-- cow p11ts In LhL' ~tuck par 11!011. The QllC'Ptl~lnntl Art O"IIN)' led 1h1° flu, I< of · opt'ningc; \\"1tl1 n rcu \~· Lnil flld 1y c.llll'ltl~ tlw week 1 n l.w1wh un ·xhl– biLion 01 works by 19Ll1 ('t'tlllll'Y 1t1 1uhc·:i pt' Hl'tl~l En~rn von G111•rnnl. ThO!-.t\ wh11 HI lt·lldt 1 cl tlH' purl.\' i1wh1<lt d :\I f J11.;1\f1· C-nn11ulh . Dr ~11 r- 111nr1 l\1•h ,t11. -.: jr \\'alter C'a11q1J,cll. llt•11ry ,1 11d Am:tnda Uartll'tt , .l11h 11 :\lnhcr. Lilinll Uu!-1·h , Fra 1u•r :-- " '11111. Hlh'-•'11 :11 cl l"rn11y K1•rri'-un, .luhn 11nd Irma Grigor. l'\oC'l unU Olh·1· t'\r.1t1• m:tnn. llnn unu .fnl'llllt•l- 1111• :'\hmro and lh•an Jan Gcnri;c ancl lw n arlmrn . Y,·t ntlWr'- mhnlrtng: lk show ·wt•rr \'idor )lJH't', lloJ.C '.\l!u·kl. '117.lt •, Lilian t't•cli'r.-.1•11, Hoh IHI .t1•m1y 1)0111,:la~. 1\.1rry und '.\tar~· ,Joh ns1m, 1tm, :1rcl ,\ lw .." 11rth , Hu1I 0 ·1 nall , ,l ;nw \\'hitt•11.1k. Huy ttlld H1It ) ("u,, p,•r, .\l.u1 ,111d :u.,r~.,rl'l n un ~