Ferdinand Karl Gold gained fame as a landscape painter in the Wachau and as an animal painter. He is also known as masterful copperplate artist. In 1996, Kunsthandel Hieke presented a selected series of his animal paintings.
His oeuvre is based on the painting style of Austrian Atmospheric Impressionism. He developed a precise formal technique, however, which even anticipated aspects of the Photorealism of the 1970s. One could call him a realist, who impresses us with his unusual angles and moods.
F.K. Gold studied at the Wiener Akademie. His first exhibitions took place at the Hagenbund, and from 1908 to 1914, he regularly exhibited his works at the Vienna Künstlerhaus. These were followed by exhibitions in Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, London, Edinburgh and Madrid. In 1905, he was awarded the Gundel Prize and in 1906 the Master School Prize.
Works at:
Albertina, Vienna
Art collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein
Art collection of Count Harrach
Library at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
British Museum, London
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