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 GEOTTGER Royal Theatre, Dante and Virgil (1879), Al- ' anil of which he became professor in 1835. legories in Cupola and Venetian Room l In 1839 he was made member of the Milan (fresco, 1854), Dresden Museum ; Scenes Academy. Works in the Museum, the from History of House of Solms (1850-58), Academy, and Imperial Library, Vienna. Castle Wildenfels ; Abraham and the An- His brother, Karl Franz (1803-45), and his gels (1862); Beigu of Creative Power (1865- sister, Katharina (1807-59), were also able 71, fresco), Lt'ipsic Museum ; Myth of Bac- flower painters. Allgem. d. Biogr., ix. 791; elms, cycle in fresco (1877), Foyer, New Wurzbach, v. 379. Theatre, Dresden ; Science, Plato and Aris- GRUND, JOHANN, born in Vienna in totle with their Disciples, Cicero (1885). 1808. History and genre painter, pupil of Frescos : Aula, St. Afra's School, Meissen : Vienna Academy, where he obtained two Apollo and Marsyas (1885). Brockhaus, first prizes ; went then to Munich, Diissel- viii. 5:55 ; Illustr. Zeitg. (1872), i. 387 ; dorf, and Paris, lived for some time in Rome, (1873), i. 124 ; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 700 ; settled in Carlsruhe, and afterwards in xxi. 81. Baden-Baden. Works : Child and Guardian GROTTGER, ARTHUR, born at Ottyno- Angel (1835) ; Hungarian Tinker (1838) ; wice, Galicia, Nov. 11, 1837, died at Aim-lie- Bathing Girl (1840); Flight into Egypt, les-Baius, Pyrenees, Doc. 13, 1807. His- Italian Robber Asleep, Italian Woman and tory, genre, and portrait painter, pupil in Child, Deborah, Carlsruhe Gallery ; Roman Vienna of Karl Blaas ; painted many excel- Peasant Woman playing with her Child lent portraits, and, taking up political genre, (1843), Vienna Museum ; Invalid ; Playing attained renown through his able and orig- Sisters ; Girl going to Nunnery ; Country inal treatment of patriotic subjects. Works: Parson's Birthday; Group of three Young Meeting of John Sobieski with Leopold I. Girls (1853), Medea (1855), Last Rose (1805), (1859); Warsaw in seven scenes (1801); Fiirstenberg Gallery, Donaueschingen ; Poland iu nine, and Lithuania in six pic- Young Smokers ; Margaret in Prison ; Deb- tures (1803) ; In the Valley of Tears thir- orah ; Judith ; Hagar and Ishmael ; Diana ; teen scenes (1805). Allgem. d. Biogr., ix. Esther ; Magdalen ; Rebekah at the Well 784; F. M. Aren, Arth. Grottger ; Brock- ' (1879) ; Ganymede (1885). Miiller, 220; haus, viii. 540; Illustr. Zeitg. (1800) | Wurzbach, v. 398. (1807); Wurzbach, xi. 420. GRUND, NORBERT, born in Prague in GROUX, CHARLES CORNEILLE AU-'l714, died there in 1707. Genre painter, GUSTR DE, born at Comines, West Flan- pupil in Vienna of Ferg ; travelled in Ger- ders, in 1825, died March 30, 1870. His- many and Upper Italy, and returned in 1741 tory and genre painter, pupil of Brussels to Prague, where he soon became the favour- Academy under Navez. Medal, 1857 ; Or- ite and the most prolific painter of his time, der of Leopold, 1800. Works: The Idler; His numerous excellent pictures, consisting Ash Wednesday ; Tavern-Brawl ; Last Fare- of battle scenes, kirmesses, pastorals, and well; Sick Child ; The Walk (1855); Saying children's play scenes, landscapes, and ma- Grace, Brussels Museum ; Protestant Ser- rines, are in private collections in Prague mon ; Death of Charles V. ; Citizens of Ca- and in the castles of the Bohemian nobility, lais before Edward III.; Pilgrimage ; Alms ; A Rural Dance, and A Banquet in a Garden, Doctor's Visit ; Decorations in Market Hall ; attributed to him, in the Dresden Gallery. at Ypres. j Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 34 ; Wurzbach, v. GRUBER, FRANZ XAVER, born in Vi- 397. enna, Sept 28, 1801, died there, April 12, GRUNDMANN, OTTO, born in Dresden 1802. Flower painter, pupil of Vienna in 1848. Portrait and genre painter, stud- Academy, where he obtained four prizes, ied uuder Professor Hiibner and Van Lerius, 180