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fitTXTHEIJ Berlin Academics and of Cornelius ; went to Rome in 184 7. Works: Resurrection; Bat- tle of Arminius, Moximilianeum, Munich ; Drusus induced to Return ; Buttle on the Granicus. GUNTHEK, OTTO, born at Hulle, Sept. 30, 1838, died at Weimar, April 20, 1S84. Genre painter, pupil in 1858-01 of Diissel- dorf Academy, and in 1803-0(5 of Weimar Art School under Prcller and liamberg. Professor at Konigsberg Academy in 1877- 80, then returned to Weimar. Gold medal, Berlin, 187(5. Works: Wedding Procession in Thuringia ; The Widower (1874), In Prison (1878), National Gallery, Berlin ; Last Farewell of Emigrant Woman ; Dis- puting Theologians (1871!), Cologne Muse- um ; Friendly Neighbours, Home Again ; The Criminal (1877) ; Virgin, Lucifer, find Death (1878) ; Last Visit (187!)) ; Village Revolt (1880) ; Allegorical Figures in Cen- tral Hall, Leipsic. Illustr. Zeitg. (1875). i. 293 ; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 484 ; xx. 184 ; Leixner, D. mod. K., i. 93 ; ii. 102 ; D. Rundschau, xvii. 301. GURK, EDUAR1), born in Vienna in 1802, died in Jerusalem, March 31, 1841. Architecture painter, pupil of the Vienna Academy. Early favoured with orders by the Emperor, and made court-painter, he went with the Archduke Frederic on the expedition to Syria, to paint the most in- teresting monuments of Palestine for the court. Works : St. Thomas's Church in BrUnn ; Interior of Maria/ell ; Cathedral of Koniggriitz ; Imperial Burg in Prague ; Cor- onation of Emperor Ferdinand in Prague. Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 182 ; Wurzbach, vi. 37. GURLITT, LUDWIG, born at Altona, Hoi- stein, March 8, 1812. Landscape painter, pu- pil in Hamburg of Bendixen ; then studied in Munich in 1832-35, and at Copenhagen Academy in 1835-38 ; visited Norway, Swe- den, and in 1839 Upper Italy, Tyrol, and Munich ; after his return became member of the Copenhagen Academy. In 1843 he went to Dusseldorf, and soon after to Rome, Naples, and Sicily ; lived in 1840 48 in Ber- lin, then at Castle Nischwitz in Saxony, and in 1851-59 in Vienna, whence he visited Dalmatia (1855), Italy (1850), and Greece (1858). From 185!) he lived partly at Gotha, partly at Castle Siebleben, which Duke Ernest had placed at his disposal, visited Spain and Portugal in 18I>7 tiS, set- tled in Dresden in 187:i, and lives now in a villa at Plauen. Member of Copenhagen and Madrid Academies ; profess' >r. Works : North Shore of l^ike Garda ( 1839), Castell Gandolfo (1845), View in Sicily, Leipsic: Museum; Crissean Plain in Greece; Plain near Thebes; Roman Campa^na (1841!) ; Landscape in Albanian Mountains (is.">(l) t National Gallery, Berlin ; Valley near Sor- rento (1851), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Lake of N'emi ; Landscape from Sabine Moun- tains ; Keller Lake in Holstein (18G5); Gib- raltar (1877); Evening in Busaco Monastery (1878), Dresden Gallery; Beech Wood on Ploli Lake ; View in Jutland ; The Acropo- lis at Athens, Gotha Museum ; View near Berchtesgaden, New Pinakothek, Munich. Brockhaus, vii. 033; Illustr. Xeitg. (1878), ii. 141! ; Miiller, 220 ; /eitschr. f. b. K., x. (Mitthcilungen, iii. 2(1) ; Weilbach, 210 ; Wuiv.baeh, vi. 38. GUSSOW, KARL, Brandenburg, in 1841!. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Weimar Art School under Ramberg and Pauwels; went in 1807 to Munich, and after a visit to Italy returned to Weimar. In 1871 he became professor at the Art School, in 1874 at the Carlsruhe Art School, and in 1875 at the Berlin Academy. Gold medal, 1875. Member of Berlin Academy in 1883. Works: Diana Hunting (1870); Faun and Nymph ; Woman going to Church ; Blind Mail's Buff; Sweetheart's Portrait (1872); Sewing Girl, Morning Hour (1873); at Havelberg,