Hirschl adolf hiremy biography of mahatma gandhi

Stephen Ongpin Fine Art Collection. By country American Drawings.

Hirschl adolf hiremy biography of mahatma gandhi: Painting by Adolph Hiremy

French Drawings. Italian Drawings. Swiss Drawings. Other Countries. In his first major canvas, Farewell: Scene from Hannibal Crossing the Alps, won a prize for historical painting. This was followed two years later by a second prize that allowed him to visit Rome, where he lived until His experiences in Rome were to have a profound effect on his work, notably in his preference for scenes from ancient Roman history.

On his return to Vienna Hirschl exhibited a large canvas of The Plague in Rome, painted in , to considerable acclaim. He soon established a successful career as a painter, receiving numerous commissions and producing grand, complex compositions of historical or allegorical subjects that were widely praised by critics and connoisseurs.

In Hirschl married an Austrian-born Englishwoman who divorced her husband to marry him; the wedding scandalized polite society in Vienna and led the artist to sever his links with the city.