Gottfried Lindauer
Gottfried Lindauer | |
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Died | 13 June 1926 | (aged 87)
Relatives | Rebecca Petty (wife) Victor Wilhelm Lindauer (son) |
Gottfried Lindauer (5 January 1839[1] – 13 June 1926) was a Czech and New Zealand artist famous for his portraits, including many of Māori people.[2]
Czech life and Austrian school
He was born Bohumír Lindauer in
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.[4] Many prominent Māori chiefs commissioned his work, which accurately records their facial tattoos, 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, 1886, were all by Lindauer, who had made the "Maori at home" a subject of special study.[5] Lindauer's Maori paintings are, like many by Ellen von Meyern and Frances Hodgkins, associated with symbolist portraits of demure females with or without a child.[6] 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.[5] 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.[3]
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.[1] They had two sons, Hector and Victor,[4] the latter a phycologist and teacher.[7] Lindauer died in 1926 and is buried in the Old Gorge cemetery in Woodville.[citation needed]
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Portrait of Terewai Horomona (b.1866) without facial tattoo
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Hinepare, a woman of the Ngāti Kahungunu tribe with facial tattoo
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Paratene Te Manu with facial tattoo
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Heeni Hirini
(also known as Ana Rupene) and child
His portrait paintings now fetch high prices; in 2023 a portrait of Māori chief Harawira Te Mihakai sold for $NZ 1,009,008.[8]
Related information
- The New Zealand sparkling wine brand is named Lindauerafter 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.[9]
See also
- C. F. Goldie, another artist known for Maori portraits
References
- ^ a b c d e Mennell, Philip (1892). . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ "The Artist Gottfried Lindauer". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
- ^ a b Hale, Constance (February–March 2018). "The Face of Aotearoa". Hana Hou!. 21 (1): 109.
- ^ a b Bell, Leonard (1993). "Lindauer, Gottfried". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
- ^ a b "Terewai Horomona (b.1867), signed and dated 1886". Explore the Royal Collection Online. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
- ISBN 978-1-86940-640-0.
- ISSN 0303-6758.
- ^ "Gottfried- Lindauer sells for more than $1 million at auction". Stuff/Fairfax. 2023.
- ^ "Pilsen, New Zealand, Berlin: The Travels of Gottfried Lindauer". Lindaueronline.co.nz.
- Bell, Leonard (1992). Colonial constructs: European images of Maori 1840–1914. Auckland University Press.
- Blackley, Roger (Winter 2006). "The Shadow Maker: Gottfried Lindauer in Hawke's Bay". Art New Zealand. 119: 72–76, 91–92.
- Hale, Constance (February–March 2018). "The Face of Aotearoa". Hana Hou!. 21 (1): 104–112.
- Mason, Ngahiraka (2016). Gottfried Lindauer's New Zealand: The Maori portraits. Auckland University Press.
- Stauer, Diana Avgusta (4 February 2015). "Gottfried Lindauer: The Māori portraits in Berlin". Arts Life, the Cultural Revolution.
External links
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki: Works by Gottfried Lindauer Archived 29 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- Behind the brush: TV series celebrating Lindauer and his Maori portraits
- Visitors book (Maori plus English translation) for those visiting Lindauer's Maori portraits
- Information about Lindauer on the website of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- Works by Lindauer in the NZ Museums website
- Biography in 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
- Notes by Una Platts
- Lindauer Online website, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki