Gottfried lindauer biography of williams sisters

Gottfried lindauer biography of williams sisters: Gottfried Lindauer's () reputation peaked in

Gottfried Lindauer , along with C. Despite his German-sounding surname, he was ethnically Czech and was initially named Bohumir Fig. Various reasons have been cited for this shift: a wish to avoid compulsory military service and the decline in portrait commissions as a result of photography, for instance. A move to Auckland in the mid s proved crucial.

Lindauer travelled extensively round New Zealand. Lindauer also retained his European and, in particular, his Czech connections. They can be presented full-length, half-length or in bust format for instance; frontal, body in profile or face to the front, as in his many portraits of Ana Rupene and her baby. Most, but not all, of these were probably commissioned by the sitters or their families.

Lindauer could depict the same person very differently from one portrait to another. In the former at Whanganui Regional Museum he is idealised and does not show his actual age. Significantly he is depicted with two good eyes, even though he had lost an eye in the s. The portrait of him in European clothes painted for Partridge Fig.