Hugo Charlemont (18 March 1850 – 18 April 1939) was an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n painter. Born in Jemnice, Moriva he was the son of Matthais Adolf Charlemont. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts. He died in Vienna.

Life

Charlemont was born in Jemnice,

Moravia Moravia ( , also , ; cs, Morava ; german: link=yes, Mähren ; pl, Morawy ; szl, Morawa; la, Moravia) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia. The me ...

. He was the son of the

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painter Matthias Adolf Charlemont and the brother of the painters

Eduard Charlemont Eduard Charlemont (2 August 1848 – 7 February 1906) was an Austrian painter. Early life Eduard Charlemont was born in Vienna, capital of the Austrian Empire, in 1848. His father, Matthias Adolf Charlemont, was also a painter, specializing in p ...

(1848–1906) and Theodor Charlemont (1859–1938). Hugo's daughter Lilly Charlemont also was an artist. From 1873 he studied art at the

Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) is a public art school in Vienna, Austria. History The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1692 as a private academy modelled on the Accademia di Sa ...

under

Eduard von Lichtenfels Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels (18 November 1833, Vienna — 22 January 1913, Berlin) was an Austrian landscape painter. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, under Franz Steinfeld and Thomas Ender. He taught landscape painting at th ...

. Charlemont was a painter of landscapes, still lifes,

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subjects, animals, and portraits. He died in Vienna.

Works

* Interieur with a forge (Vienna, Austrian gallery, Inv. No. 2784), 1883, oil on wood, 48.5 x 70 cm * Highway with Birkenallee (Vienna, Austrian gallery, Inv. No. 253), 1894, oil on wood, 68 x 100 cm * Park with elegant Viennese villa (Vienna museum), 1902, oil on canvas, 145 x 100 cm * Young woman with azalea plant (Vienna museum), 1928, oil on canvas, 68 x 83 cm * Illustration to "Kronprinzenwerk" (Austrian-Hungarian monarchy in word and pictures, 1885–1902). * Harp, (Sweden, private collection) ND, oil on wood * Forest Pond, (Colorado, private collection) 1922, oil on canvas, 36 x 26 cm

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ArtNet: More works by Charlemont
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