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Gottfried Lindauer (5 January 1839 – 13 June 1926) was a Bohemian and
He was born Bohumír Lindauer in Plzeň (Pilsen), Western Bohemia,
To avoid being drafted by the Austro-Hungarian army he left for Germany in 1873. From there he sailed for New Zealand on the ''Reichstag'' in 1874, arriving in Wellington on 6 August. Many prominent Māori chiefs commissioned his work, which accurately records their facial
File:Gottfried Lindauer - Portrait of Terewai Horomona (b.1866).jpg, Portrait of Terewai Horomona (b.1866) without facial tattoo
File:Hinepare.jpg, Hinepare, a woman of the Ngāti Kahungunu tribe with facial tattoo
File:Paratene Te Manu, by Gottfried Lindauer.jpg, Paratene Te Manu with facial tattoo
File:Gottfried Lindauer - Ana Rupene and Child OU PTRM 1938 35 1881.jpg, Heeni Hirini
(also known as Ana Rupene) and child
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki: Works by Gottfried Lindauer
Behind the brush: TV series celebrating Lindauer and his Maori portraits
Visitors book (Maori plus English translation) for those visiting Lindauer's Maori portraitsInformation about Lindauer on the website of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa TongarewaWorks by Lindauer in the NZ Museums websiteBiography in 1966 Encyclopaedia of New ZealandLindauer Online website, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
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New Zealand
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artist famous for his portraits, including many of Māori people
The Māori (, ) are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (). Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Over several c ...
.
Czech life and Austrian school
He was born Bohumír Lindauer in Plzeň (Pilsen), Western Bohemia, Austrian Empire
The Austrian Empire (german: link=no, Kaiserthum Oesterreich, modern spelling , ) was a Central-Eastern European multinational great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs. During its existence ...
(now part of the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
). His father, Ignatz Lindauer was a gardener. His first drawing experience was plants and trees. From 1855 Lindauer studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he took classes of Leopold Kupelwieser, Josef Führich and Professor Rohl. To increase his chances on the market, he decided to change his name from the Czech Bohumír to the German translation of his name, " Gottfried". From his studio in Pilsen he created paintings with religious themes for churches and painting frescoes in the Cathedral churches of Austria. His paintings attracted people, particularly the prominent people who were often the subjects of his paintings, including Bishop Jieschek, of Budweis, in Bohemia. After a sojourn in that city of eighteen months, he went to Moravia for three years.
New Zealand
To avoid being drafted by the Austro-Hungarian army he left for Germany in 1873. From there he sailed for New Zealand on the ''Reichstag'' in 1874, arriving in Wellington on 6 August. Many prominent Māori chiefs commissioned his work, which accurately records their facial tattoos
A tattoo is a form of body modification made by inserting tattoo ink, dyes, and/or pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to form a design. Tattoo artists create these designs using several tattooing pr ...
, clothing, ornaments and weapons. A series of life-size portraits of Maori chiefs and warriors exhibited by Sir Walter Buller at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition
The Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886 was held in South Kensington in London with the objective to (in the words of the then Prince of Wales) "stimulate commerce and strengthen the bonds of union now existing in every portion of her Majes ...
, 1886, were all by Lindauer, who had made the "Maori at home" a subject of special study. Lindauer's Maori paintings are, like many by Ellen von Meyern
Ellen von Meyern (died c. 1912) was a New Zealand artist who is remembered for her portraits of Maori people.
Life
Meyern was probably the daughter of Arthur von Meyern. Around 1895, she moved from Dunedin to Auckland, where she studied port ...
and Frances Hodgkins
Frances Mary Hodgkins (28 April 1869 – 13 May 1947) was a New Zealand painter chiefly of landscape and still life, and for a short period was a designer of textiles. She was born and raised in New Zealand, but spent most of her working ...
, associated with symbolist portraits of demure females with or without a child. One of these, a young poi dancer without a facial tattoo, was so admired by the Prince of Wales that Buller gave it to him. His most famous works are portraits of Heeni Hirini, also known as Ana Rupene, carrying a baby on her back. Lindauer painted this image 30 times.
After visiting his native land in 1886–87, he settled in Woodville, near Wellington, having shortly before married Rebecca, the daughter of Benjamin Prance Petty. They had two sons, Hector and Victor, the latter a phycologist and teacher. Lindauer died in 1926 and is buried in the Old Gorge cemetery in Woodville.
(also known as Ana Rupene) and child
Related information
*The New Zealand sparkling wine brand is named Lindauer after the artist. *Lindauer's portrait of Paratene Te Manu is on the cover of the novel ''Rangatira'' by Paula Morris. The novel features a number of fictionalised scenes with Lindauer and Paratene, set during the painting of the portrait in 1886. *One of Lindauer's sons taught art at Woodville School in the 1920s. *His relatives were Josef Ondřej Lindauer and Josef Beran.
See also
* C. F. Goldie, another artist known for Maori portraitsReferences
* * * * *External links
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki: Works by Gottfried Lindauer
Behind the brush: TV series celebrating Lindauer and his Maori portraits
Visitors book (Maori plus English translation) for those visiting Lindauer's Maori portraits
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