Ignaz Gaugengigl
Illustration — Ignaz Gaugengigl, self-portrait 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.
Also recorded as Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl · Ignaz Michael Marcel Gaugengigl · Gaugengigl · Ignace Gaugengigl
Ignaz Gaugengigl
Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1896, page 48 · Public domain
- Died
- 1932 · Boston.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · etcher · artist
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts and Munich
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Ignaz Gaugengigl, self-portrait 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 Gaugengigl studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Boston. Work by Ignaz Gaugengigl is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Harvard Art Museums.
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 under Johann Leonhard Raab and Wilhelm von Diez. 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. He was known as the "Meissonier 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.
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- 1.Joseph Gutenäcker: Verzeichniß aller Programme und Gelegenheitsschriften, welche an den K. Bayer. Lyzeen, Gymnasien und lateinischen Schule vom Schuljahre 1823/24 bis zum Schlusse des Schuljahres 1859/60 erschinenen sind. Bamberg, 1862, S. 95.
- 2.Ignace Gaugengiel, Artist, Dies Here. The Boston Globe. 8. 1932-08-03.
- 3.The New England Magazine. Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 47–48. 1896.
- 4.Amazon.com: Books by Ignaz Gaugengigl, Sr.
- 5.Absolute Arts: Etchings and Drypoints by Gaugengigl
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