Gottfried Lindauer
Subtitle: 1839-1926 : Pilsen painter of the New Zealand Maori
By: Aleš Filip; Roman Musil (eds.) ; texts Leonard Bell [and eight others]
Contributors: Lindauer, Gottfried, 1839-1926, artist; Musil, Roman, editor, author; Bell, Leonard, 1945- author; Západočeská galerie v Plzni; Auckland Art Gallery
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Arbor Vitae; Západočeská galerie v Plzni
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Revnice
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9788074670824
Subjects: Exhibitions; Painting; Catalogs; New Zealand Painting; Maori (New Zealand people); Portraits; Maori (New Zealand people) in art; Waituhi; Kōrero nehe; Kōrero taumata; Whakaaturanga toi ataata; Západočeská galerie v Plzni; Auckland Art Gallery
Other titles: Pilsen painter of the New Zealand Maori
Description: "The exhibition and this accompanying book are revelatory in bringing to light new research concerning Gottfried Lindauer's personal and professional life, as well as his remarkable painting methods. Conceived for 2015, the year when Pilsen holds centre stage as the European Capital of Culture, this exhibition directs long overdue attention to the Pilsen-born painter who was both an exemplary artist and an innovative pioneer in the field of inter-cultural research and exchange. Lindauer's practice spanned Europe and Aotearoa New Zealand, encompassed early training with the professor from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in the Nazarene School, religious paintings in eastern Moravia, military commissions while in service, and studio paintings of the Burgher community in Pilsen (c. 1870) before emigrating across the globe to find his cultural voice in his portraits of Māori and genre paintings depicting Māori life. These works captured the imagination of the rapidly forming nation that was 19th-century New Zealand."--Foreword.
Notes: Published in cooperation with the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki on the occassion of the exhibition held in the Gallery of West Bohemia in Pilsen - Masné krámy from 6 May to 20 September 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279).
Table of contents: title: Te Kawenga Māori; title: Māori spiritual journey / Elizabeth Ellis; title: Lindauer the European / Jiří Suchánek, Jiří Sulženko; title: Gottfried Lindauer / Aleš Filip, Roman Musil; title: Lindauer's presence in Central Europe before his departure for New Zealand / Aleš Filip, Roman Musil; title: A Czech artist in New Zealand / Leonard Bell; title: Gottfried Lindauer: painting and photography / Ngahiraka Mason; title: From Owen Jones to Adolf Loos: European theory of the ornament and Māori tattoos / Lada Hubatová-Vacková; title: Visual culture and intercultural encounters: Gottfried Lindauer between the Māori and the colonizers / Milan Kreuzzieger; title: Europe, Czechs and Oceania: from mythification to artistic creation / Tomáš Winter; title: Catalogue / Tomáš Bernhardt, Jane Davidson-Ladd, Ngahiraka Mason, Mathew Norman; title: Glossary.