Hugo Charlemont
Hugo Charlemont ( born March 18, 1850 in Jamnitz, Moravia, † April 18, 1939 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter.
Life
Hugo Charlemont came from a family of artists. He was the son of the miniaturist Matthias Adolf Charlemont and the brother of the painter Eduard Charlemont (1848-1906) and Theodor Charlemont ( 1859-1938 ). Even Hugo's daughter Lilly Charlemont (1890-1975) was an artist.
He studied from 1873 at the Academy of Fine Arts and was a pupil of Eduard von Lichtenfels. When Arthur William Unger, he learned printing technology and the art of etching. Later he formed with his brother Eduard and Hans Makart artistically on. Charlemont made several study trips to the Netherlands and spent several years in Venice. Hugo Charlemont is the model of the painter van Helmond in Robert Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities. Alice Charlemont, the elder daughter Hugo Charlemonts, returns as Clarisse in the novel.
Performance
Among his contemporaries Hugo Charlemont was a versatile talent. He devoted himself to a variety of pictorial themes, such as landscapes, still life, animal, genre or portrait painting. In addition to oil paintings he created numerous watercolors and gouaches. Most notable appear his landscapes, which are held in an impressionist style. Of the innovations of modern art to Charlemont, however, was not impressed; he remained true to his style in the 20th century.
He is buried in an honorary grave dedicated to the Döblinger Cemetery (Group 23, Series 12, Number 13) in Vienna.
Works
- Interiors of a hammer mill (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Inv. No. 2784 ), 1883, oil on panel, 48.5 x 70 cm
- Country road with birch avenue (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Inv. No. 253 ), 1894, oil on wood, 68 x 100 cm
- Park an elegant villa in Vienna (Vienna Museum ), 1902, oil on canvas, 145 x 100 cm
- Young woman with azaleas floor ( Vienna Museum ), 1928, oil on canvas, 68 × 83 cm
- Floodplain with pond ( private collection in Colorado ), 1922, oil on canvas, 36 × 26 cm