Kārlis Jēkabs Vilhelms Hūns, also known as Karl Jacob Wilhelm Huhn and Karl Theodor Huhn (Russian: Карл Фёдорович Гун; 13 November 1831 – 28 January 1877) was a Baltic-German history,

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and landscape painter.

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, General Editor: A. M. Prokhorov. 3rd edition, Moscow 1972, vol.7 "Гоголь — Дебит
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Biography

His father was a parochial school teacher and organist Vasily Vereshchagin, ''Повести. Очерки. Воспоминания'' (Stories, Essays, Memories), edited by E. Primech, V. A. Kosheleva and A. B. Chernova, Moscow 1990, and he received his general education at the

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School in Riga. In 1850, he went to Saint Petersburg to study drafting and lithography. While there, he began taking evening classes at the

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and was admitted as a full student two years later. His primary instructor was

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. By 1859 the artist already competes for artistic awards. In 1861, he received the title of Artist First-Class and a gold medal. He soon began creating icons in the local churches (notably, the Cathedral of the Intercession in

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), as well as creating sketches of folk life on behalf of the Russian Geographical Society. In 1863, he was awarded a fellowship that allowed him to travel in Germany, although he eventually settled in Paris and exhibited at the Salon in 1868. Upon his return to Saint Petersburg in 1872, he was named an Academician and later elevated to a professorship. Over the next few years, he finished work started in Paris and focused on paintings of a religious nature.New Collegiate Dictionary, General editor K. K. Arsenyev, Saint Petersburg, Brockhaus and Efron, 1913, Vol.XV "Гривна — Десмургiя

http://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01004103256#page1] He was also a member of the "Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions" (

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). In 1874, he married Vera Monighetti, daughter of the architect Ippolit Monighetti. Unfortunately, that same year, he began displaying symptoms of

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. On the advice of his doctors, he sought out climates with fresher, healthier air than Saint Petersburg, but the disease progressed and, after living in several locations, he died in Switzerland, aged only forty-five.Vladimir Victorovich Chuyko, "Karl Huhn" in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, edited by I. E. Andryevsky, K. K. Arsenyev and F. F. Petrushevsky, Saint Petersburg, 1893

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Selected paintings

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References

External links

* Biography and pictures of Kārlis Hūns on the site "The History of Latvian Art

Russian Painting:
Brief biography and paintings by Hūns. {{DEFAULTSORT:Huns, Karlis 1831 births 1877 deaths People from Ogre Municipality People from Kreis Riga Baltic-German people Russian painters Russian male painters 19th-century Latvian painters Imperial Academy of Arts alumni Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts Awarded with a large gold medal of the Academy of Arts 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Switzerland

Biography

Selected paintings

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