MOUNT LANGI GHIRAN BY EUGENE VON GUERARD

EUGENE VON GUERARD (1811-1901) 

Mount Langi Ghiran (924m - 3,031ft) 

Australia (Victoria) 

In Mount Langi Ghiran, oil on canvas, 1890

The mountain 
Mount Langi Ghiran (924m - 3,031ft) is located in the west of Victoria  southeast of Australia. The nearest town to Mount Langi Ghiran is Ararat about 16.3 km away. 

The first European to climb Mount Langi Ghiran was Major Thomas Mitchell, on his 1836 'Australia Felix' expedition.  He first named it Mount Mistake ! 

There are two reservoirs in the park which were built from local granite blocks in the 1880s. The main reservoir forms part of Ararat's water supply and is worth a visit.
A "spot mill" for extracting timber was built on the northern slopes in 1940 but was short lived. Today little evidence remains to remind us of the mill's past operation.

Since 1970,  famous vineyards are situated in the valley of Mount Langi Ghiran.

The painter
Johann Joseph Eugene von Guerard was an Austrian-born artist, active in Australia from 1852 to 1882. Known for his finely detailed landscapes in the tradition of the Düsseldorf school of painting, he is represented in Australia's major public galleries, and is referred to in the country as Eugene von Guerard. In 1852 von Guerard arrived in Victoria, Australia, determined to try his luck on the Victorian goldfields. As a gold-digger he was not very successful, but he did produce a large number of intimate studies of goldfields life, quite different from the deliberately awe-inspiring landscapes for which he was later to become famous. Realizing that there were opportunities for an artist in Australia, he abandoned the diggings and was soon undertaking commissions recording the dwellings and properties of wealthy pastoralists.
By the early 1860s, von Guerard was recognized as the foremost landscape artist in the colonies, touring Southeast Australia and New Zealand in pursuit of the sublime and the picturesque. He is most known for the wilderness paintings produced during this time, which are remarkable for their shadowy lighting and fastidious detail. Indeed, his View of Tower Hill in south-western Victoria was used as a botanical template over a century later when the land, which had been laid waste and polluted by agriculture, was systematically reclaimed, forested with native flora and made a state park. The scientific accuracy of such work has led to a reassessment of von Guerard's approach to wilderness painting, and some historians believe it likely that the landscapist was strongly influenced by the environmental theories of the leading scientist Alexander von Humboldt. Others attribute his 'truthful representation' of nature to the criterion for figure and landscape painting set by the Düsseldorf Academy.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

EAST GIPPSLAND ALPS BY EUGENE VON GUERARD

        

EUGENE VON GUERARD  (1811-1901)

East Gippsland Alps :  
Mount Hotham  (1,862 m- 6,109 ft) 

Mount Buffalo (1,723 m -5,653 ft) 

The Strzelecki Ranges / Mount Tassie (740 m -2,430 ft) 

 Australia (Victoria) 

 In Gippsland Alps from Bushy Park on the River Avon, or 

Panoramic view of Mr Angus McMillan's station, Bushy Park, Gippsland, Victoria

oil painting panorama on two canvas, each 361 mm x 941 mm, 1861

National Gallery of Australia

About the panorama 

As far as it is accurate - which is doubtful as it covers such a large area - this panorama was painted from Bushy Park, a town in Victoria, Australia, located north of Maffra, in the Shire of Wellington. 

It would include several East Gippsland mountains possibly visible from this point of view, including Mount Hothtam and Mount Buffalo. 

The second part of the panorama describes lower mountains as could be The Strzelecki Ranges, a  set of low mountain  located in the West Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria.

The mountains 
Mount Hotham  (1,862 m- 6,109 ft) is a mountain in the Victorian Alps of the Great Dividing Range, located in the Australian state of Victoria. The mountain is located approximately 357 kms (222 mi) north east of Melbourne, 746 kms (464 mi) from Sydney, and 997 kms(620 mi) from Adelaide by road. The nearest major road to mountain is the Great Alpine Road. The mountain is named after Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria from 1854 to 1855.

Mount Buffalo (1,723 m -5,653 ft) is moderately tall mountain plateau in the Mount Buffalo National Park in Victoria, Australia that is located approximately 350 kms (220 mi) northeast of Melbourne in the Australian Alps. The summit on the plateau is known as The Horn. Mount Buffalo is managed by Parks Victoria.
The Strzelecki Ranges (740 m -2,430 ft)  at its highest point  Mount Tassie is a set of low mountain ridges located in the West Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. The Ranges are named after Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, a Polish explorer, who with the assistance of Charley Tarra the small party's Aboriginal guide, led an expedition through this region in 1840.

The painter 

Johann Joseph Eugene von Guerard was an Austrian-born artist, active in Australia from 1852 to 1882. Known for his finely detailed landscapes in the tradition of the Düsseldorf school of painting, he is represented in Australia's major public galleries, and is referred to in the country as Eugene von Guerard. In 1852 von Guerard arrived in Victoria, Australia, determined to try his luck on the Victorian goldfields. As a gold-digger he was not very successful, but he did produce a large number of intimate studies of goldfields life, quite different from the deliberately awe-inspiring landscapes for which he was later to become famous. Realizing that there were opportunities for an artist in Australia, he abandoned the diggings and was soon undertaking commissions recording the dwellings and properties of wealthy pastoralists.

By the early 1860s, von Guerard was recognized as the foremost landscape artist in the colonies, touring Southeast Australia and New Zealand in pursuit of the sublime and the picturesque.  He is most known for the wilderness paintings produced during this time, which are remarkable for their shadowy lighting and fastidious detail.  Indeed, his View of Tower Hill in south-western Victoria was used as a botanical template over a century later when the land, which had been laid waste and polluted by agriculture, was systematically reclaimed, forested with native flora and made a state park. The scientific accuracy of such work has led to a reassessment of von Guerard's approach to wilderness painting, and some historians believe it likely that the landscapist was strongly influenced by the environmental theories of the leading scientist Alexander von Humboldt. Others attribute his 'truthful representation' of nature to the criterion for figure and landscape painting set by the Düsseldorf Academy.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...

by Francis Rousseau 

MOUNT STURGEON OR WURGARRI BY EUGENE VON GUERARD

EUGENE VON GUERARD  (1811-1901)

Mount Sturgeon or Wurgarri  (575 m - 1,886 ft) 

Australia (Victoria) 

 In Mount Sturgeon and the Wannon in the Grampians, Victoria 1858, pencil on paper

The mountain 

Mount Wurgarri  (575 m-1,886 ft)  also called Mount Sturgeon is a mountain in Australia located in the Southern Grampians region and the state of Victoria , about 230 kilometers west of the state capital of Melbourne. The width at the base is 2.1 km.  The area around Mount Wurgarri is almost unpopulated, with less than two inhabitants per square kilometer.  In the surroundings around Mount Wurgarri grows mainly savannah forest.  The average annual average is 927 millimeters. The rainy month is July, with an average of 143 mm rainfall , and the driest is February, with 25 mm rainfall.

The painter 
Johann Joseph Eugene von Guerard was an Austrian-born artist, active in Australia from 1852 to 1882. Known for his finely detailed landscapes in the tradition of the Düsseldorf school of painting, he is represented in Australia's major public galleries, and is referred to in the country as Eugene von Guerard. In 1852 von Guerard arrived in Victoria, Australia, determined to try his luck on the Victorian goldfields. As a gold-digger he was not very successful, but he did produce a large number of intimate studies of goldfields life, quite different from the deliberately awe-inspiring landscapes for which he was later to become famous. Realizing that there were opportunities for an artist in Australia, he abandoned the diggings and was soon undertaking commissions recording the dwellings and properties of wealthy pastoralists.
By the early 1860s, von Guerard was recognized as the foremost landscape artist in the colonies, touring Southeast Australia and New Zealand in pursuit of the sublime and the picturesque.  He is most known for the wilderness paintings produced during this time, which are remarkable for their shadowy lighting and fastidious detail.  Indeed, his View of Tower Hill in south-western Victoria was used as a botanical template over a century later when the land, which had been laid waste and polluted by agriculture, was systematically reclaimed, forested with native flora and made a state park. The scientific accuracy of such work has led to a reassessment of von Guerard's approach to wilderness painting, and some historians believe it likely that the landscapist was strongly influenced by the environmental theories of the leading scientist Alexander von Humboldt. Others attribute his 'truthful representation' of nature to the criterion for figure and landscape painting set by the Düsseldorf Academy.

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2018 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau 

MOUNT BARKER BY EUGENE VON GUERARD

EUGENE VON GUERARD (1811-1901)

Mount Barker  (517 m - 1,696 ft)

Australia 

In Mount Barker and the Murray Plains from top of Mt Lofty, near Adelaide, 1858  

 Pen and ink and wash over pencil, 31.6 × 49.1 cm,
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

The mountain
Mount Barker   (517 m - 1,696 ft) is a hill in the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia and namesake of the nearby town of Mount Barker.  Mount Barker was first sighted by Captain Charles Sturt in 1830, although he thought he was looking at the previously discovered Mount Lofty. Captain Collet Barker fixed this error when he surveyed the area in 1831. Sturt named the mountain in honor of Captain Barker after he was killed days later by Aborigines.
The first Europeans to ascend the mountain, on 27 November 1837, were a six-man party comprising John Barton Hack, John Morphett, Samuel Stephens, Charles Stuart (South Australian Company's stock overseer), Thomas Davis (Hack's stockman), and John Wade (a "gentleman from Hobart Town").
There are numerous activities such as walking trails on Mt Barker.This hill is nowadays the home to a transmission tower that services SAGRN and mobile phone transmissions throughout the area. Microwave radio equipment is also installed on the tower, providing various forms of communication such as broadband internet connections and voice services to Mount Barker residents and businesses.

The painter 

Johann Joseph Eugene von Guerard was an Austrian-born artist, active in Australia from 1852 to 1882. Known for his finely detailed landscapes in the tradition of the Düsseldorf school of painting, he is represented in Australia's major public galleries, and is referred to in the country as Eugene von Guerard. In 1852 von Guerard arrived in Victoria, Australia, determined to try his luck on the Victorian goldfields. As a gold-digger he was not very successful, but he did produce a large number of intimate studies of goldfields life, quite different from the deliberately awe-inspiring landscapes for which he was later to become famous. Realizing that there were opportunities for an artist in Australia, he abandoned the diggings and was soon undertaking commissions recording the dwellings and properties of wealthy pastoralists.

By the early 1860s, von Guerard was recognized as the foremost landscape artist in the colonies, touring Southeast Australia and New Zealand in pursuit of the sublime and the picturesque.  He is most known for the wilderness paintings produced during this time, which are remarkable for their shadowy lighting and fastidious detail.  Indeed, his View of Tower Hill in south-western Victoria was used as a botanical template over a century later when the land, which had been laid waste and polluted by agriculture, was systematically reclaimed, forested with native flora and made a state park. The scientific accuracy of such work has led to a reassessment of von Guerard's approach to wilderness painting, and some historians believe it likely that the landscapist was strongly influenced by the environmental theories of the leading scientist Alexander von Humboldt. Others attribute his 'truthful representation' of nature to the criterion for figure and landscape painting set by the Düsseldorf Academy.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...

by Francis Rousseau 

BLUE MOUNTAINS BY EUGENE VON GUERARD

EUGENE VON GUERARD  (1811-1901)
Blue Mountains  (1,189 m -3,901 ft) 

Australia  (New South Wales)

In Govett's Leap and Grose River Valley, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, oil on canvas, 1873

The mountains
The Blue Mountains  (1,189 m (3,901 ft) - not to be confused with Greater Blue Mountains Area, Blue Mountains National Park, City of Blue Mountains, Electoral district of Blue Mountains - are a mountainous region and a mountain range located in New South Wales, Australia. 

The region borders on Sydney's metropolitan area, its foothills starting about 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of centre of the state capital, close to the major suburb of Penrith. The public's understanding of the extent of the Blue Mountains is varied, as it forms only part of an extensive mountainous area associated with the Great Dividing Range. Officially the Blue Mountains region is bounded by the Nepean and Hawkesbury rivers in the east, the Coxs River and Lake Burragorang to the west and south, and the Wolgan and Colo rivers to the north.

Geologically, it is situated in the central parts of the Sydney Basin.
The Blue Mountains Range comprises a range of mountains, plateau escarpments extending off the Great Dividing Range about 4.8 kilometres (3.0 mi) northwest of Wolgan Gap in a generally southeasterly direction for about 96 kilometres (60 mi), terminating at Emu Plains. 

The Capertee Valley is a 2nd largest canyon (by width) in the world and largest valley in New South Wales, Australia, 135 km (84 mi) north-west of Sydney. The valley follows the Capertee River as it cuts through the Sydney Basin, a sedimentary basin consisting of Permian and Triassic sedimentary rock west of the Blue Mountains.

The painter
Johann Joseph Eugene von Guerard was an Austrian-born artist, active in Australia from 1852 to 1882. Known for his finely detailed landscapes in the tradition of the Düsseldorf school of painting, he is represented in Australia's major public galleries, and is referred to in the country as Eugene von Guerard. In 1852 von Guerard arrived in Victoria, Australia, determined to try his luck on the Victorian goldfields. As a gold-digger he was not very successful, but he did produce a large number of intimate studies of goldfields life, quite different from the deliberately awe-inspiring landscapes for which he was later to become famous. Realizing that there were opportunities for an artist in Australia, he abandoned the diggings and was soon undertaking commissions recording the dwellings and properties of wealthy pastoralists.
By the early 1860s, von Guerard was recognized as the foremost landscape artist in the colonies, touring Southeast Australia and New Zealand in pursuit of the sublime and the picturesque. He is most known for the wilderness paintings produced during this time, which are remarkable for their shadowy lighting and fastidious detail. Indeed, his View of Tower Hill in south-western Victoria was used as a botanical template over a century later when the land, which had been laid waste and polluted by agriculture, was systematically reclaimed, forested with native flora and made a state park. The scientific accuracy of such work has led to a reassessment of von Guerard's approach to wilderness painting, and some historians believe it likely that the landscapist was strongly influenced by the environmental theories of the leading scientist Alexander von Humboldt. Others attribute his 'truthful representation' of nature to the criterion for figure and landscape painting set by the Düsseldorf Academy.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

MOUNT ABRUPT BY EUGENE VON GUERARD

EUGENE VON GUERARD  (1811-1901)

Mount Abrupt (805 m - 2,641ft)

Australia  (Victoria) 

 In Mount Abrupt, The Crampians, Victoria, Private collection 

The mountain 

Mount Abrupt (805 m - 2,641ft) is located in Grampians National Park Victoria. This Mount Abrupt hike, suitable for fit and energetic walkers, can involve water crossings, slippery track surfaces, rock hopping and rock scrambling. The steep track winds its way through heathy woodland to a ridge. Follow the ridge over rock slabs and stunted montane vegetation to the summit, for one of the most spectacular views.

A large landside caused by the storm event in January 2011 badly damaged this walking track. Parks Victoria has worked hard to rebuild this track but further rain could cause movement of soil and rock over the track.

The painter 
Johann Joseph Eugene von Guerard was an Austrian-born artist, active in Australia from 1852 to 1882. Known for his finely detailed landscapes in the tradition of the Düsseldorf school of painting, he is represented in Australia's major public galleries, and is referred to in the country as Eugene von Guerard. In 1852 von Guerard arrived in Victoria, Australia, determined to try his luck on the Victorian goldfields. As a gold-digger he was not very successful, but he did produce a large number of intimate studies of goldfields life, quite different from the deliberately awe-inspiring landscapes for which he was later to become famous. Realizing that there were opportunities for an artist in Australia, he abandoned the diggings and was soon undertaking commissions recording the dwellings and properties of wealthy pastoralists.
By the early 1860s, von Guerard was recognized as the foremost landscape artist in the colonies, touring Southeast Australia and New Zealand in pursuit of the sublime and the picturesque.  He is most known for the wilderness paintings produced during this time, which are remarkable for their shadowy lighting and fastidious detail.  Indeed, his View of Tower Hill in south-western Victoria was used as a botanical template over a century later when the land, which had been laid waste and polluted by agriculture, was systematically reclaimed, forested with native flora and made a state park. The scientific accuracy of such work has led to a reassessment of von Guerard's approach to wilderness painting, and some historians believe it likely that the landscapist was strongly influenced by the environmental theories of the leading scientist Alexander von Humboldt. Others attribute his 'truthful representation' of nature to the criterion for figure and landscape painting set by the Düsseldorf Academy.

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2018 - Wandering Vertexes...

by Francis Rousseau 

BEN LOMOND / TURBUNNA PAINTED BY EUGENE VON GUERARD

 

EUGENE VON GUERARD  (1811-1901)
Ben Lomond / Turbunna (1,572m - 5,157ft)
Australia (Tasmania)

In Ben Lomond, Epping Forest, Tasmania, 1867, colour lithograph,28.4 × 48.8 cm - National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

The mountain
 Ben Lomond /Turbunna (1,572m - 5,157ft) or Turbunna or Tudema Tura in Tasmanian Aboriginal Palawa langage, not to be confused with Ben Lomond eponymus name of the mountain in Scotland, is a mountain in the north of Tasmania, Australia. The mountain is composed of a central massif with an extensive plateau high outlier peaks projecting from the mountain. The highest feature on the plateau is the unimposing summit of Legges Tor, at 1572 m, on the northern aspect of the plateau. The southern end of the plateau is dominated by Stacks Bluff, which is an imposing feature that drops away above the surrounding foothills. The prominent outlier peaks of Ragged Jack, Mensa Moor and Tower Hill surround the plateau. Ben Lomond is east of Launceston in the Ben Lomond National Park. Tasmania's premier Alpine skiing operations are located at Ben Lomond with downhill skiing facilities in the State. Its accessibility from Launceston, together with the existence of a ski village on the plateau make Ben Lomond an all year round favourite for tourists and hikers. Access to the village and summit can be made via several walking tracks or via a zig-zag road known as "Jacobs Ladder".
The Tasmanian Aboriginal Palawa name for Ben Lomond was usually recorded as Turbunna, Toorbunna or Toorerpunner. It is said to mean 'Rain Tail'. Modern etymological researchers of the Palawa lexicon assert that, in addition to turbunna, there were several names for Ben Lomond: Parndoke, Parndokenne, Loonder, Tritterer, Tudema tura (a name for Ben Lomond recorded by John Glover).

The painter
Johann Joseph Eugene von Guerard was an Austrian-born artist, active in Australia from 1852 to 1882. Known for his finely detailed landscapes in the tradition of the Düsseldorf school of painting, he is represented in Australia's major public galleries, and is referred to in the country as Eugene von Guerard.
By the early 1860s, von Guerard was recognized as the foremost landscape artist in the colonies, touring Southeast Australia and New Zealand in pursuit of the sublime and the picturesque. He is most known for the wilderness paintings produced during this time, which are remarkable for their shadowy lighting and fastidious detail. Indeed, his View of Tower Hill in south-western Victoria was used as a botanical template over a century later when the land, which had been laid waste and polluted by agriculture, was systematically reclaimed, forested with native flora and made a state park. The scientific accuracy of such work has led to a reassessment of von Guerard's approach to wilderness painting, and some historians believe it likely that the landscapist was strongly influenced by the environmental theories of the leading scientist Alexander von Humboldt. Others attribute his 'truthful representation' of nature to the criterion for figure and landscape painting set by the Düsseldorf Academy.

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2020 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

MOUNT WILLIAM (DUWIL) BY EUGENE VON GUERARD

EUGENE VON GUERARD (1811-1901)

 Mount William or Mount Duwil (1,167 m - 3,829 ft)

Australia (Victoria)

1. In Mount William and part of the Grampian in West Victoria, 1865, National Gallery of Victoria

2. In  Mount William from Mount Dryden, 1857 , oil on canvas, Art Gallery of Western Australia

The mountain 
Mount William also called Mount Duwil ( (1,167 m - 3,829 ft) is a mountain of the Grampians Mountain Range, located within the Grampians National Park (which is he highest point), in the Australian state of Victoria. The mountain is situated approximately 250 kilometres (160 mi) west-north-west of Melbourne on the eastern edge of the national park, approximately 22 kilometres (14 mi) drive from Halls Gap.
Sir Thomas Mitchell reached the summit with a group of explorers in 1836. The first settler in the area was Horatio Wills, who established a sheep run at Mount William in 1840, and named nearby Mount Ararat, after which the town is named. His son, cricketer and Australian rules football pioneer Tom Wills, grew up as a lone white child among the Djab wurrung Aboriginal tribes of Mount William.
A sealed service road continues to the summit, but is not accessible by vehicle to the general public.
It will take a person approximately 45 mins to walk. No permit is required to climb the mountain.
 Source: 
 - Grampians National Park

The painter 
Johann Joseph Eugene von Guerard was an Austrian-born artist, active in Australia from 1852 to 1882. Known for his finely detailed landscapes in the tradition of the Düsseldorf school of painting, he is represented in Australia's major public galleries, and is referred to in the country as Eugene von Guerard. In 1852 von Guerard arrived in Victoria, Australia, determined to try his luck on the Victorian goldfields. As a gold-digger he was not very successful, but he did produce a large number of intimate studies of goldfields life, quite different from the deliberately awe-inspiring landscapes for which he was later to become famous. Realizing that there were opportunities for an artist in Australia, he abandoned the diggings and was soon undertaking commissions recording the dwellings and properties of wealthy pastoralists...
- More about Eugene Von Gerard life and works

MOUNT KOSCIUSZKO BY EUGENE VON GUERARD

EUGENE VON GUERARD (1811-1901)
Mount Kosciuszko (2, 228 m - 7,310 ft)
Australia

In North east view from the top of Mt Kosciusko, 1866, colour lithograph, 44.0 × 59.6 cm-
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

The mountain 

On earth, there are two mountains named Mount Kosciuszko. One is located in Antartica continent and the other in Australia (Oceania continent). 

In Australia, Mount Kosciuszko (2,228 m - 7,310 ft) is a mountain located on the Main Range of the Snowy Mountains in Kosciuszko National Park, part of the Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves, in New South Wales  and is located west of Crackenback and close to Jindabyne.

Mount Kosciuszko is the highest mountain in Australia.

Mount Kosciuszko was named by the Polish explorer Paul Edmund Strzelecki in 1840, in honour of the Polish national hero and hero of the American Revolutionary War General Tadeusz Kościuszko, because of its perceived resemblance to the Kościuszko Mound in Kraków. The spelling "Mount Kosciuszko" was officially adopted in 1997 by the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales, Australia. Mount Everest (8,848m), Aconcagua (6,961m), Mt Denali or Mc Kinley (6,194m),  Kilimandjaro (5,895m), Mt Elbrus (5,642m), Mount Vinson (4,892m)  and Mt Blanc (4,808m)

The Painter 

Johann Joseph Eugene von Guerard was an Austrian-born artist, active in Australia from 1852 to 1882. Known for his finely detailed landscapes in the tradition of the Düsseldorf school of painting, he is represented in Australia's major public galleries, and is referred to in the country as Eugene von Guerard.

In 1852 von Guerard arrived in Victoria, Australia, determined to try his luck on the Victorian goldfields. As a gold-digger he was not very successful, but he did produce a large number of intimate studies of goldfields life, quite different from the deliberately awe-inspiring landscapes for which he was later to become famous. Realizing that there were opportunities for an artist in Australia, he abandoned the diggings and was soon undertaking commissions recording the dwellings and properties of wealthy pastoralists.

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2020 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

JEBEL SHAMSAN PEINT PAR EUGENE VON GUÉRARD

 

EUGENE VON GUÉRARD (1811-1901)
Jebel Shamsan (553 m)
Yemen (Aden)

In Jebel Shamsan, Aden c.1891, huile sur toile, 90 x 150 cm

Le relief
Jebel Shamsan (553 m) est le point culminant d'Aden de la chaîne Shamsan. Dans les premiers temps, chaque sommet de la chaîne Shamsan possédait un fort avec une tour, qui faisait partie de la structure de défense d'Aden. Il y avait au moins une vingtaine de forts de ce type. La vue vers l'est présente un splendide panorama sur Khormaksar et l'île des Esclaves tandis qu'au nord, on peut voir le Jebel Muzalqam de 374 mètres au-dessus du port de Little Aden. L'ascension du Jebel Shamsan, bien que d'une altitude modeste demande de l'endurance et il est préférable de la faire tôt le matin, juste après le lever du jour, avant que la chaleur torride ne s'installe.

Le peintre
Johann Joseph Eugene von Guerard était un artiste d'origine autrichienne, actif en Australie de 1852 à 1882. Connu pour ses paysages finement détaillés dans la tradition de l'école de peinture de Düsseldorf, il est représenté dans les principales galeries publiques d'Australie et est mentionné dans le pays comme Eugène von Guérard.
Au début des années 1860, von Guérard était reconnu comme le plus grand paysagiste des colonies, parcourant le sud-est de l’Australie et la Nouvelle-Zélande à la recherche du sublime et du pittoresque. Il est surtout connu pour les peintures sauvages réalisées à cette époque, remarquables par leur éclairage ombragé et leurs détails minutieux. Ainsi, sa vue de Tower Hill, dans le sud-ouest de Victoria, a été utilisée comme modèle botanique plus d'un siècle plus tard, lorsque la terre, qui avait été dévastée et polluée par l'agriculture, a été systématiquement récupérée, boisée d'une flore indigène et transformée en parc naturel. L'exactitude scientifique de ces travaux a conduit à une réévaluation de l'approche de von Guérard en matière de peinture , et certains historiens estiment qu'il est probable que le paysagiste ait été fortement influencé par les théories environnementales du scientifique Alexander von Humboldt. D'autres attribuent sa « représentation fidèle » de la nature aux critères fixés par l'Académie de Düsseldorf pour la peinture de personnages et de paysages.

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2023 - Gravir les montagnes en peinture
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MOUNT ELEPHANT BY EUGENE VON GUERARD

 

EUGENE VON GUERARD (1811-1901)

Mount Elephant or Djerrinallum (240 m -790 ft) 

Australia

This work is a preparatory drawing to the oil on canvas representing the Mount Elephant already published on this blog.