The Australian painter Athur Streeton (1867 - 1943) is still one of the most important landscape painters of Impressionism today and was co-founder of the Heidelberg school of Australian impressionism.
Beside his landscape representations he was also employed as a front painter from 1918 in the First World War. During this time he created pictures like " Villers Bretonneux" (1918), which gave more space to the destroyed landscape than to the actual war events. Yet even in the years 1882 - 1887 Streeton had had little formal training in painting. As a plein-air painter, he tried to capture the light, heat and vastness of his home country in his paintings. In 1889 he organized, together with other painters, The 9 by 5 impression exhibition in Melbourne, where his paintings "The national game" (1889) and "A road to the ranges" (1889) were shown.
After several exhibitions in Australia, Streeton travelled via Cairo to London in 1897, where he spent many years and only occasionally visited his Australian homeland. It was also his patriotism developed here that moved him to volunteer later in the war. In 1923 he returned to Victoria. From 1929 he became an art critic for the newspaper The Argus. In 1937 he was knighted.
The Australian painter Athur Streeton (1867 - 1943) is still one of the most important landscape painters of Impressionism today and was co-founder of the Heidelberg school of Australian impressionism.
Beside his landscape representations he was also employed as a front painter from 1918 in the First World War. During this time he created pictures like " Villers Bretonneux" (1918), which gave more space to the destroyed landscape than to the actual war events. Yet even in the years 1882 - 1887 Streeton had had little formal training in painting. As a plein-air painter, he tried to capture the light, heat and vastness of his home country in his paintings. In 1889 he organized, together with other painters, The 9 by 5 impression exhibition in Melbourne, where his paintings "The national game" (1889) and "A road to the ranges" (1889) were shown.
After several exhibitions in Australia, Streeton travelled via Cairo to London in 1897, where he spent many years and only occasionally visited his Australian homeland. It was also his patriotism developed here that moved him to volunteer later in the war. In 1923 he returned to Victoria. From 1929 he became an art critic for the newspaper The Argus. In 1937 he was knighted.
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