Hugo Charlemont - Artist Info

About Hugo Charlemont

  • Biography

    Hugo Charlemont lived from 1850 to 1939. He trained from 1873 on as pupil of the landscape painter Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels at the Academy in Vienna. A study stay in Holland with his brother Eduard followed. He learned printing techniques and the art of etching under Arthur William Unger. Back in Vienna, he received further training from Hans Makart.

    In the Hofburg Palace in Vienna he created a ceiling painting in the buffet hall (‘Gaben und Früchte der Erde’). He made a series of illustrations for the piece ‘Die österreich-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild‘ (‘The Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy in Word and Image‘) for crown prince Rudolph.

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