Wilhelm Gause | Genre painter

Wilhelm Gause (March 27, 1853 - June 13, 1916) was a German🎨 - Austrian painter🎨. He studied at the Düsseldorf Academy, and in 1888 exhibited his work in Vienna.

Perhaps Gause’s most famous work is “Court Ball at the Hofburg🎨”.

Created in 1900, it hangs today within the walls of the Wien Museum Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria.

It depicts aristocrats crowding around Franz Joseph I of Austria at the Hofburg Imperial Palace.

On January 28, 2011, Another painting of his, Party on the Ice🎨, 1909 was sold at Sotheby's in New York for $13,750.

Vincent van Gogh | Wheatfield under Thunderclouds, 1890

Landscapes inspired overwhelming, but also very complex emotions in Vincent van Gogh🎨 (1853-1890).

The paintings of wheatfields are an expression of extreme sadness and loneliness, while they at the same time embody the strength he derived from them.

In 1890, an emotionally unsettled, humorless and argumentative Van Gogh was sent by his brother to the rural French city of Auberge Ravoux where he lived under the care and supervision of Dr. Cachet.

For almost three months until his death on July 29th of that year Van Gogh made about 70 paintings, thirteen of which focused on the wheat harvest from the middle of late July.

Van Gogh | Butterflies series

Butterflies is a series paintings made by Vincent van Gogh🎨 in 1889 and 1890.

Van Gogh made at least four paintings of butterflies and one of a moth.

The metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly was symbolic to Van Gogh of men and women's capability for transformation.

Vincent van Gogh | Butterflies and Poppies | Van Gogh Museum

Gaetano Chierici | Genre painter

Gaetano Chierici (1838-1920) was an Italian painter🎨, mainly of genre works🎨.

He was born in Reggio Emilia, and attended the Reggio Emilia School of Fine Arts in 1850 and 1851.

Chierici continued his studies at the academies of Modena and Florence before completing his training in Bologna under the guidance of Giulio Cesare Ferrari.

His early work was in Italy influenced by the Neo-classicism of his uncle, the artist Alfonso Chierici and of Adeodato Malatesta, but subsequently by the innovations of the Macchiaioli painters🎨.

Josef Lauer | Still Life painter

Josef Lauer was born 1818 in Vienna. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Sebastian Wegmayr, Joseph Mössmer, Thomas Ender and Franz Steinfeld.

Lauer focused on painting still lifes with flowers and fruits, where he was the first depicting floral still lifes integrated in landscapes.

His first exhibition was 1840, then he showed his works in different exhibitions also at the Austrian Kunstverein.

Since 1861 he was also a member of the Viennese Künstlerhaus. He lived and worked solely in Vienna.

Josef Lauer died 1881 in Vienna.

Thomas Moran | Hudson River School

Thomas Moran [1837-1926] was a British-born American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains.

Moran and his family took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist.

A talented illustrator and exquisite colorist, Moran was hired as an illustrator at Scribner's Monthly.

Worthington Whittredge | Hudson River School painter

Worthington Whittredge, in full Thomas Worthington Whittredge, (born May 22, 1820, Springfield, Ohio, U.S. - died February 25, 1910, Summit, New Jersey), American🎨 landscape painter associated with the Hudson River school🎨.

Whittredge, originally a house painter, took up portraiture and landscape painting about 1838. Beginning in 1849 he spent five years in Düsseldorf, Germany, and five years in Rome, where he posed for Emanuel Leutze, who used him as the model for George Washington in Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851).

Thomas Cole | Hudson River School painter

Thomas Cole (1801-1848)🎨 inspired the generation of American landscape painters that came to be known as the Hudson River School🎨.

Born in Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, England, in 1801, at the age of seventeen he emigrated with his family to the United States, first working as a wood engraver in Philadelphia before going to Steubenville, Ohio, where his father had established a wallpaper manufacturing business.