Berlin Academies and of Cornelius; went to Rome in 1847. Works: Resurrection; Battle of Arminius, Maximilianeum, Munich; Drusus induced to Return; Battle on the Granicus.
GÜNTHER, OTTO, born at Halle, Sept.
30, 1838, died at Weimar, April 20, 1884.
Genre painter, pupil in 1858-61 of Düsseldorf
Academy, and in 1863-66 of Weimar
Art School under Preller and Ramberg.
Professor at Königsberg Academy in 1877-80,
then returned to Weimar. Gold medal,
Berlin, 1876. Works: Wedding Procession
in Thuringia; The Widower (1874), In
Prison (1878), National Gallery, Berlin;
Last Farewell of Emigrant Woman; Disputing
Theologians (1876), Cologne Museum;
Friendly Neighbours, Home Again;
The Criminal (1877); Virgin, Lucifer, and
Death (1878); Last Visit (1879); Village
Revolt (1880); Allegorical Figures in Central
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, EDUARD, 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 interesting
monuments of Palestine for the
court. Works: St. Thomas's Church in
Brünn; Interior of Mariazell; Cathedral of
Königgrätz; Imperial Burg in Prague; Coronation
of Emperor Ferdinand in Prague.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., x. 182; Wurzbach, vi.
37.
GURLITT, LUDWIG, born at Altona, Holstein,
March 8, 1812. Landscape painter, pupil
in Hamburg of Bendixen; then studied
in Munich in 1832-35, and at Copenhagen
Academy in 1835-38; visited Norway, Sweden,
and in 1839 Upper Italy, Tyrol, and
Munich; after his return became member
of the Copenhagen Academy. In 1843 he
went to Düsseldorf, and soon after to Rome,
Naples, and Sicily; lived in 1846-48 in Berlin,
then at Castle Nischwitz in Saxony, and
in 1851-59 in Vienna, whence he visited
Dalmatia (1855), Italy (1856), and Greece
(1858). From 1859 he lived partly at
Gotha, partly at Castle Siebleben, which
Duke Ernest had placed at his disposal,
visited Spain and Portugal in 1867-68, settled
in Dresden in 1873, and lives now in a
villa at Plauen. Member of Copenhagen
and Madrid Academies; professor. Works:
North Shore of Lake Garda (1839), Castell
Gandolfo (1845), View in Sicily, Leipsic
Museum; Crissean Plain in Greece; Plain
near Thebes; Roman Campagna (1846);
Landscape in Albanian Mountains (1850),
National Gallery, Berlin; Valley near Sorrento
(1854), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Lake
of Nemi; Landscape from Sabine Mountains;
Keller Lake in Holstein (1865); Gibraltar
(1877); Evening in Busaco Monastery
(1878), Dresden Gallery; Beech Wood on
Plön Lake; View in Jutland; The Acropolis
at Athens, Gotha Museum; View near
Berchtesgaden, New Pinakothek, Munich.—Brockhaus,
vii. 633; Illustr. Zeitg. (1878),
ii. 143; Müller, 226; Zeitschr. f. b. K., x.
(Mittheilungen, iii. 26); Weilbach, 216;
Wurzbach, vi. 38.
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GUSSOW, KARL, born at Havelberg,
Brandenburg, in
1843. Genre and
portrait painter, pupil
of Weimar Art School
under Ramberg and
Pauwels; went in
1867 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 Man's Buff; Sweetheart's Portrait
(1872); Sewing Girl, Morning Hour (1873);
