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Ignaz Michael Marcel Gaugengigl (16 January 1855 – 3 August 1932) was a German-American painter and engraver who worked primarily in the United States. He specialized in portraits and historical paintings.
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Ignaz Michael Marcel Gaugengigl (16 January 1855 – 3 August 1932) was a German-American painter and engraver who worked primarily in the United States. He specialized in portraits and historical paintings.
Biography
Ignaz Gaugengigl was born in Passau, Bavaria on 16 January 1855. His father (also named Ignaz) was a teacher who wrote several books on linguistics and related subjects. After finishing school, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where he studied underJohann Leonhard Raab
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Albrecht Christoph Wilhelm von Diez (17 January 1839, Bayreuth – 25 February 1907, Munich) was a German painter and illustrator of the Munich School.
Life
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In 1880, he visited his sister in Boston and decided to settle there himself. He quickly assimilated into the city's cultural life and became a friend of Sylvester Koehler, the first curator of prints at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works ...
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of Boston", because of his many portraits of the " Boston Brahmins" and their families, and was one of the founders of the Guild of Boston Artists. Most of his works are in private collections.
He died at his studio in Boston on 3 August 1932.
References
External links
Childs Gallery, Boston: Works by Gaugengigl
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gaugengigl, Ignaz 1855 births 1932 deaths 19th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century American painters 19th-century German painters 19th-century American male artists German male painters American engravers German engravers Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni Painters from Boston People from Passau Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States 20th-century American printmakers 20th-century German printmakers 20th-century German painters 20th-century American male artists 20th-century engravers