Person
Guerard, Johann Joseph Eugen von (1812 - 1901)
- Born
- 1812
Vienna, Austria - Died
- 17 April 1901
Chelsea, England - Occupation
- Artist
Summary
Guerard arrived in Victoria in 1852 and spent 16 years travelling and sketching in the wilds of south-eastern Australia, sometimes in company with such scientific expeditions as those led by A.W. Howitt in 1860 and G.B. Neumayer in 1862.
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Johann Joseph Eugen von Guerard - Records, 1852 - 1901; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Private hands (Comstock, E.)
- Johann Joseph Eugen von Guerard - Records, 1812 - 1901; Private hands (Comstock, E.). Details
State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
- Johann Joseph Eugen von Guerard - Records, 1852 - 1901; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details
Published resources
Books
- Darragh, Thomas A.; and Pullin, Ruth, Lieber Freund! Letters from Eugen von Guerard to Julius von Haast (Ballarat: Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2018), 81 pp. Details
- Pullin, Ruth, Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed (Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2011), 304 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Pullin, Ruth, 'The artist as geotourist: Eugene von Guérard and the seminal sites of early volcanic research in Europe and Australia' in Appreciating physical landscapes: three hundred years of geotourism, Hose, T. A., ed. (London: Geological Society of London, 2016), pp. 59-69. Details
- Tipping, Marjorie J., 'Guerard, Johann Joseph Eugen von (1812-1901)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Douglas Pike, ed., vol. 4 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1972), pp. 306-307. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040347b.htm. Details
Conference Papers
- Pullin, Ruth, 'Von Guérard, the Vulkaneifel and Victoria's Volcanic Western District', in The History of Geology in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; the Story in Australia, and in Victoria, from Selwyn and McCoy to Gregory - 1853 to 1903 edited by Pierson, R. R. (Melbourne: Earth Sciences History Group, GSA Inc., 2007), pp. 62-8.. Details
Journal Articles
- Pullin, Ruth, 'Geology and the landscape painter: Eugene von Guérard', Newsletter: Earth Sciences History Group, 42 (2011), 3-9. Details
- Pullin, V. R., 'Eugene von Guérard and Georg Neumayer: Recorded Journeys', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 123 (2011), 122-31. Details
- Pullin, V. Ruth and Darragh, Thomas A., 'The artist-collector: Eugene von Guérard and the Berlin Ethnological Museum', Australian historical studies, 54 (4) (2023), 690-717. https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2023.2256350. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q507521. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/96652715. Details
- 'Guérard, Eugen von (1812-19010417)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1296726. Details
Reviews
- Pullin Ruth, Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed (2011)
Fox, Paul, Australian Historical Studies, 43, (2012), 303-11. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 30 April 2012
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