Frederick McCubbin

Frederick McCubbin ( born February 25, 1855 in Melbourne, Australia, † December 20, 1917 ) was an Australian painter. He was an important representative of the Heidelberg school ( according to the Australian Heidelberg), which is one of the important periods in the history of the visual arts in Australia.

Biography

Frederick McCubbin was born as the third of eight children. His father, Alexander McCubbin was a baker, and his mother Anne McWilliams came from England. Frederick William visited the Willmett 's West Melbourne Common School and St Paul's School. Later he worked for a time as a clerk in a solicitor, then as a body painter. During his art studies at the National Gallery School, he also worked in the bakery his family. At the National Gallery School, he met Tom Roberts and studied under Eugene von Guerard. McCubbin studied at the Victorian Academy of Arts and exhibited there in 1876 and 1879 to 1882 from. In 1880 he sold his first painting. During this period - after the death of his father - he also took over the management of the family business.

In the early 1880s McCubbins works began to attract some attention. He received a number of awards from the National Gallery, including a 1883 first prize for painting and drawing in the annual exhibition of works by art students. From the mid- 1880s McCubbin concentrated in his choice of subject on the Australian bushland. With these works he later became best known.

In 1888 he became a teacher and master at the School of Design at the National Gallery. There he taught students who later known Australian artists were, including Charles Conder and Arthur Streeton.

McCubbin continued painting continued in the first two decades of the 20th century, where his health deteriorated at the beginning of the First World War. In 1907 he traveled to England and visited Tasmania, but aside from these relatively short excursions, he spent most of his life in Melbourne.

In March 1889 McCubbin married Annie Moriarty. The couple had seven children, of whom the son Louis also became an artist.

1901 McCubbin and his family moved to Mount Macedon in the Australian state of Victoria. Your pre-fabricated house in the English style he had built on the northern slopes of a mountain, which he called " Fontainebleau " baptizing. In this environment, he painted many pictures, including the work of " The Pioneer ". The house survived the Ash Wednesday fires in 1983 and still stands today as an artistic legacy McCubbins. On Mount Macedon inspired him bushland environment for experimentation with light and its effects on color in nature.

McCubbin 1912 founding member of the Australian Arts Society. In 1917, he died of a heart attack.

Works

In 1998, McCubbins paintings Bush Idyll (1893 ) was sold for $ 2,312,500. That was a record price for an Australian painter.