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Hugo Charlemont was an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n painter.

Family history

Hugo was the son of the miniature

Miniature (illuminated manuscript)

The word miniature, derived from the Latin minium, red lead, is a picture in an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple decoration of the early codices having been miniated or delineated with that pigment...

painter Matthias Adolf Charlemont and the brother of the painters Eduard Charlemont

Eduard Charlemont

Eduard Charlemont was an Austrian painter.-Early life:Eduard Charlemont was born in Vienna, capital of the Austrian Empire in 1848. His father, Matthias Adolf Charlemont, was also a painter, specializing in painting miniature portraits. His younger brother Hugo Charlemont was an equally famous...

(1848–1906) and Theodor Charlemont (1859–1938). Also Hugos daughter Lilly Charlemont was an artist.

Works

Interieur of a hammer hammerschmiede (Vienna, Austrian gallery, Inv. No. 2784), 1883, oil on wood, 48.5 x 70 cm
Highway with Birkenallee (Vienna, Austrian gallery, Inv. No. 253), 1894, oil on wood, 68 x 100 cm
Park distinguished Viennese of a mansion (Vienna museum), 1902, oil on canvas, 145 x 100 cm
Young woman with azalea stick (Vienna museum), 1928, oil on canvas, 68 x 83 cm
Illustration to "Kronprinzenwerk" (Austrian-Hungarian monarchy in word and pictures, 1885–1902).
Harp, (Sweden, private collection) ND, oil on wood
Forest Pond, (Colorado, private collection) 1922, oil on canvas, 36 x 26 cm

External links

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