GfiOTSSON GEXISSOX, VICTOR JULES, born at 1 St. Omcr (Pas-dc-Ciiliiis) in 1805, died in ! 1860. Architecture painter. Works: View in Dominican Monastery.it Antwerp (1843); Church Interior (1845), Kunsthalle, Ham- bury ; Burial Chapel at Dreux (1850) ; In- | terior of Collegiate Church at St. Licrre near Antwerp (1852), Ravenc Gallery, Berlin ; St. Lawrence's at Nuremberg, Stet- tiii Museum. GEXXERICH, OTTO, born in Berlin in 1823. History painter, pupil of Berlin Academy. Continued his studies in Italy (1841-42) with Lengerich. After his return he taught and wrote on perspective. Works : Gotz von Berlichingen at Heilbronn (1848) ; Last Will of Great Elector (1852) ; Visit of Electoral Family of Brandenburg to Re- mains of Gustavus Adolphus at Wolgast (1809). -Miiller, 200. GEXOD, MICHEL PHILIBERT, born iu Lyons, Sept. 20, 1790, died there, July 25, 1802. Genre painter, pupil of Ruvoil, and one of the best painters born at Lyons. His pictures are agreeable, true to nature, and carefully executed. Medal, 2d class, 1811); L. of Honour, 1855. Many of his works have been engraved. Works: Mother wit li a Sick Child (181!)) ; Father's Blessing, Hospital Sister (1822) ; Soldier's Farewell (1824), Lyons Museum ; Young Mother mourning for her Sou (1824) ; Cupid and Psyche; Prisoners of State under Louis XIII. (18I55); Monk in the Pyrenees ; The Golden Wedding (1855) ; The Prisoner (1857) ; The King Drinks! A Painter's Apprentice (1801). Larous.se. GEXOELS, ABRAHAM, called Archi- medes, born in Antwerp, May 25, 1040, died there, May 10, 1723. Flemish school ; landscape painter, pupil of Jacob Backerell, and at Bois-le-Due of Fierlants ; went to France in 1059, where he was employed by Lebrun to paint the backgrounds in his Bat- tles of Alexander the Great, and in 1004 was made member of the Academy. In 1672 he entered the guild of Antwerp, whither lie returned after having spent the period from 1674 to 1682 in Rome, where his knowl- edge of mathematics acquired him the sur- name of Archi- medes. Works : Minerva and the Muses, Antwerp Museum ; Land- scape, Bruns- wick Museum. Allgem. d. Biogr., viiL 509; Cli. Blanc, Ecole flamande ; Cat. du Musee d'Anvers (1874), Fetis, Les Ar- tistes beiges a 1'etranger, i. 215 ; Rooses (Reber), 414 ; Riegel, Beitriige, 130 ; Van den Bran- dcn, 1074. GEXSCHOW, GEORG, born at Rostock in 1829. Landscape painter, pupil of Diis- seldorf Academy under Andreas Achenbach, and afterwards studied nature in the Bava- rian Highlands, Switzerland, and the Car- pathian Mountains ; Lives at Diisseldorf. Works : Mountain Lake (1853), View r in the Hartz, Mill in the Mountains (1859), Sea- shore at Sunset (1801), Schweriu Gallery ; Waterfall in Carpathian Mountains (1862), Kiel Gallery ; Wood Brook (1804), Fall in Tatra Mountains (1800), Evening Landscape (1807), Mill on River Erft (1808). Miiller, 200. GEXSLER, GUXTHER, born in Ham- burg, Feb. 28, 1803. Portrait painter and writer on art, studied in Dresden, the Neth- erlands, and Italy. Works : Two Groups of Artists (1849 and 1800), Old Art Amateur (1867), Kunsthalle, Hamburg ; Assembly of Hamburg Artists (1859), Cologne Museum ; Hour of Rest in the Studio (1854), Leipsic Museum. Miiller, 200. GENSLER, JAKOB, born in Hamburg, Jan. 22, 1808, died there, Jan. 26, 1845. Genre painter, pupil of Rachau and Gerdt Hardorff, the elder, then in Eutin of Wilhelm Tischbein ; went in 1827 to Dresden, and thence to Munich, where he frequented the Academy. Visited the Tyrol, then continued 122
