Biography of Gustav Bauernfeind

Photo of Gustav


1848 born August 4th in Sulz/Neckar Germany
? studied architecture at Polytech Institute in Stuttgart and worked at the architectural firm of Professor Wilhelm Bäumer and later of Adolph Gnauth were he was introduced to painting.
1864 Castel Gandolfo am Albaner See, 1864 drawing on paper
1873-74 As an employee of Gnauth he traveled to Italy and was assigned to a project for Johann Christoph Engelhaus.
? started by painting Italian scenery
1880

Washing Day

1880 traveled for the 1st time from Munich to Egypt, Syria, and Palestine. He was having difficulty in selling his German bourgeois village scenes and took the advise of friends to change the style of his paintings in accordance with the contemporary Orientalist genre.
1884 traveled to Beirut, Damascus and Jaffa where he met his future wife Elise Bertsch.
1887

Market in Jaffa

1887

Street Scene in Damascus

1888 Bauernfeind left Germany for a third trip to the Middle East - the most extensively documented period of his life - and arrived in Jaffa. With over a week's delay due to severe flooding he finally boarded an Egyptian steamboat Fayiem that took him north to Beirut from where he continued inland toward Damascus
1888

Harbour of Jaffa

1890

Wailing Wall Jerusalem

1890

Forecourt of Ummayad Mosque

1890

Lament onf the Faithful at Wailing Wall

1896 moved with his wife and son to Jerusalem and worked there as well as in Lebanon and Syria
1898 Ansicht der deutschen Kolonie in Haifa, 1898 (Ölgemälde)
1904 died in Jerusalem
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David Street in Jerusalem

? Jerusalem, Blick von unten auf den Felsendom (Ölgemälde, 109 x 82 Zentimeter)
? Eingang zum Tempelberg, Jerusalem (Ölgemälde, 102 x 70 Zentimeter)
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Bustling Street Scene Damascus

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Plain of Jericho

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Canal Scene in Chioggia

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View of Jerusalem

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Oriental Street Scene

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Portal of Great Mosque, Damascus

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Dead Sea with Moabite Mountains

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Street Scene

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Bethany

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Sea of Galilee

Gustav Bauernfeind's work consists of architectural and grenre pictures of Palestine motives. He has also painted numerous watercolors.

There is a museum that houses 25 paintings and many of the artist's watercolors, as well as documentary records of the artist's life in his home town:
Adresse: Bauernfeind-Museum
Marktplatz 1
72172 Sulz
Hotline: 07454/9650
Webseite: http://www.netmuseum.de/

Books about Bauernfeind
Der Maler Gustav Bauernfeind (1848 - 1904) und der Orient
Bauernfeind, Gustav. - Stuttgart : Hauswedell, 2004

2. Die Reise nach Damaskus
Bauernfeind, Gustav. - Tübingen : Francke, 1996

3. Gustav Bauernfeind
Kühner-Versteegh, Petra. - Frankfurt am Main : Lang, 1996

4. Der Orientmaler Gustav Bauernfeind
Stuttgart : Hauswedell, 1990

5. Der Maler Gustav Bauernfeind und der Orient
Bauernfeind, Gustav. - [Sulz] : Hugo Schmid, 1980


Petra S. Kühner: Gustav Bauernfeind. Gemälde und Aquarelle. Monographien zur bildenden Kunst, Band 5. (Dissertationsschrift.) Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris und Wien 1996