HUGO DARNAUT

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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Hugo Darnaut (1851- 1937), was an Austrian landscape painter, of the ‘Mood Impressionist’ movement. He began as an apprentice painter in a theatre in Vienna. He then studied formally art at the Vienna Academy.With scholarship, he focussed on the genre of landscape painting. Hugo Darnaut, from 1893-1912, rented with a friend Schindler, a castle in the Vienna Forest, to run a school for landscape painters.

Darnaut ’s landscape art includes water bodies, and atmospheric effects. He worked with water colour and oil paints. At places, he composed architectural elements in fairly complex arrangements. Well-rendered trees are inevitable part of his scenes.

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DIRCK VAN DELEN

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Dirck van Delen (or Dirck Christiaensz van Delen) (1605-1671) was a Dutch painter of the Golden Age. He specialized in architectural paintings, depicting imaginary palace and church interiors. It is believed, Van Delen studied with, both Frans Hals and Hendrick Aerts (who also specialized in architectural paintings). Delen’s early architectural paintings were influenced by the works of Hans Vredeman de Vries and his son Paul Vredeman de Vries.

Delen’s early works were plain interiors which frontal darker planes offset by lighter, in depth spaces, forming a striking contrast. But as he matured (1630s) he began with greater boldness and exuberance. His palette turned lighter and illumination was from multiple sources. Some of the stark architectural capriccios became softer, with greater tonal variations and in-fill human figures in various poses, other objects. The staffage (figures and other inserts) in his works, are attributed to other painters. Delen had an important influence on succeeding architectural painters in Antwerp. 

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JOSÉ MARÍA AVRIAL

 

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José María Avrial y Flores (1807-1891) was a Madrid born Spanish Painter, illustrator, scenographer, a decorator for festivities and religious ceremonies, landscape painter and a perspective expert. He also contributed art work for many publications.

Avrial began art studies at very young age of 12, at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Later, his teachers entrusted him with creating the Lithographic collection of paintings of the king of Spain. He was named, ‘Person of Merit’ by the academy in 1837, for his drawings of the old districts of Madrid. That same year, he was appointed Director of the School of Fine Arts in Segovia, where he established classes in decorative painting and perspective.

In 1839, Avrial presented the San Fernando Academy with a series of drawings depicting the antiquities of Segovia, including the rooms at the Alcázar. He was selected to head the painting section at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Cádiz in 1853. In 1865, Avrial wrote an illustrated report on the archaeological studies of Spain's national architecture.

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