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 Berlin Academies and of Cornelius; went to Rome in 1847. Works: Resurrection; Battle of Arminius, Maximilianeum, Munich; Drusus induced to Return; Battle on the Granicus.

GÜNTHER, OTTO, born at Halle, Sept. 30, 1838, died at Weimar, April 20, 1884. Genre painter, pupil in 1858-61 of Düsseldorf Academy, and in 1863-66 of Weimar Art School under Preller and Ramberg. Professor at Königsberg Academy in 1877-80, then returned to Weimar. Gold medal, Berlin, 1876. Works: Wedding Procession in Thuringia; The Widower (1874), In Prison (1878), National Gallery, Berlin; Last Farewell of Emigrant Woman; Disputing Theologians (1876), Cologne Museum; Friendly Neighbours, Home Again; The Criminal (1877); Virgin, Lucifer, and Death (1878); Last Visit (1879); Village Revolt (1880); Allegorical Figures in Central Hall, Leipsic.—Illustr. Zeitg. (1875), i. 293; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 484; xx. 184; Leixner, D. mod. K., i. 93; ii. 102; D. Rundschau, xvii. 301.

GURK, EDUARD, born in Vienna in 1802, died in Jerusalem, March 31, 1841. Architecture painter, pupil of the Vienna Academy. Early favoured with orders by the Emperor, and made court-painter, he went with the Archduke Frederic on the expedition to Syria, to paint the most interesting monuments of Palestine for the court. Works: St. Thomas's Church in Brünn; Interior of Mariazell; Cathedral of Königgrätz; Imperial Burg in Prague; Coronation of Emperor Ferdinand in Prague.—Allgem. d. Biogr., x. 182; Wurzbach, vi. 37.

GURLITT, LUDWIG, born at Altona, Holstein, March 8, 1812. Landscape painter, pupil in Hamburg of Bendixen; then studied in Munich in 1832-35, and at Copenhagen Academy in 1835-38; visited Norway, Sweden, and in 1839 Upper Italy, Tyrol, and Munich; after his return became member of the Copenhagen Academy. In 1843 he went to Düsseldorf, and soon after to Rome, Naples, and Sicily; lived in 1846-48 in Berlin, then at Castle Nischwitz in Saxony, and in 1851-59 in Vienna, whence he visited Dalmatia (1855), Italy (1856), and Greece (1858). From 1859 he lived partly at Gotha, partly at Castle Siebleben, which Duke Ernest had placed at his disposal, visited Spain and Portugal in 1867-68, settled in Dresden in 1873, and lives now in a villa at Plauen. Member of Copenhagen and Madrid Academies; professor. Works: North Shore of Lake Garda (1839), Castell Gandolfo (1845), View in Sicily, Leipsic Museum; Crissean Plain in Greece; Plain near Thebes; Roman Campagna (1846); Landscape in Albanian Mountains (1850), National Gallery, Berlin; Valley near Sorrento (1854), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Lake of Nemi; Landscape from Sabine Mountains; Keller Lake in Holstein (1865); Gibraltar (1877); Evening in Busaco Monastery (1878), Dresden Gallery; Beech Wood on Plön Lake; View in Jutland; The Acropolis at Athens, Gotha Museum; View near Berchtesgaden, New Pinakothek, Munich.—Brockhaus, vii. 633; Illustr. Zeitg. (1878), ii. 143; Müller, 226; Zeitschr. f. b. K., x. (Mittheilungen, iii. 26); Weilbach, 216; Wurzbach, vi. 38.

GUSSOW, KARL, born at Havelberg, Brandenburg, in 1843. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Weimar Art School under Ramberg and Pauwels; went in 1867 to Munich, and after a visit to Italy returned to Weimar. In 1871 he became professor at the Art School, in 1874 at the Carlsruhe Art School, and in 1875 at the Berlin Academy. Gold medal, 1875. Member of Berlin Academy in 1883. Works: Diana Hunting (1870); Faun and Nymph; Woman going to Church; Blind Man's Buff; Sweetheart's Portrait (1872); Sewing Girl, Morning Hour (1873);