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Co-produced with the Auckland Art Gallery to tie in with a
major exhibition of Lindauer’s Māori portraits.
From the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the Bohemian
immigrant artist Gottfried Lindauer travelled to marae and rural towns around
New Zealand and – commissioned by Māori and Pākehā – captured in paint the
images of key Māori figures. For Māori then and now, the faces of tūpuna are
full of mana and life. Now this definitive work collects those portraits for
New Zealanders.
The book presents 67 major portraits and 8 genre paintings
alongside detailed accounts of the subject and work, with essays by leading
scholars that take us inside Lindauer and his world: from his artistic training
in Bohemia to his travels around New Zealand as Māori and Pākehā commissioned
him to paint portraits; his artistic techniques and deep relationship with
photography; Henry Partridge’s gallery on Auckland’s Queen Street where Māori
visited to see their ancestors; and the afterlife of the paintings in marae and
memory.
Hardback, 310 x 206 mm, 284 pages,
colour illustrations,
978 1 86940 856 5
Zara Stanhope is principal curator at the gallery and
has written a number of books, articles and exhibition catalogues. Contributing
writers include Len Bell, Nigel Borrell, Chanel Clarke, Jane Davidson-Ladd,
Ngarino Ellis, Aleš Filip, Sarah Hillary, Ute Larsen, Roman Musil and Kahu Te
Kanawa.
The Exhibition:
More than 150 historic oil portraits of Māori and Pākehā
will be shown at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki in the largest ever
exhibition of work by artist Gottfried Lindauer. The Māori Portraits:
Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand will feature artworks from the late 19th
and early 20th centuries. It opens Saturday 22 October and entry is free. NOT TO BE MISSED - QUITE WONDERFUL.
The exhibition celebrates artist Gottfried Lindauer
(1839–1926), New Zealand’s pioneering and most prolific portrait painter and a
key cultural figure in the country’s art history. It will bring together an
array of finely-detailed portraits of Māori rangatira (men and women of
standing in their communities) in both traditional and western dress, portraits
of colonial settlers, and large paintings depicting Māori life and customs.
Lindauer’s personal history, from his art training and
migration from Europe to his artistic inventions once in New Zealand, will be
highlighted, bringing new insights to the relevance of his life’s work in the
21st century.
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