Artist · 8 prints
Gustav Bauernfeind Prints
About Gustav Bauernfeind
Gustav Bauernfeind was a German painter, born in 1848 in Sulz am Neckar and died in Jerusalem on 24 December 1904. He trained as an architect at the Stuttgart Polytechnic and worked in the office of the architect Adolf Gnauth before turning to painting. In 1880 he made the first of three journeys to the Middle East, travelling through Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, and between journeys he worked in Munich. In 1896 he left Germany for Palestine with his wife and son, and in 1898 the family settled in Jerusalem.
Bauernfeind was an Orientalist painter of detailed, architecturally precise views of streets, markets, mosques and holy sites in Jerusalem, Damascus and Jaffa. Key works include Jaffa, Recruiting of Turkish Soldiers in Palestine (1888), in the Dahesh Museum of Art, New York; The Gate of the Great Umayyad Mosque, Damascus (1890); and Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives at Sunrise (about 1902). The Gustav Bauernfeind Museum in his birthplace, Sulz am Neckar, is dedicated to his life and work.
Gustav Bauernfeind prints: reproductions of the German Orientalist painter's views of Jerusalem, Damascus and Jaffa. Works in the collection include A Well in Jaffa (1880), Sentinel at the Entrance to the Temple Mount, Jerusalem (1883), The Western Wall (1889), The Gate of the Great Umayyad Mosque, Damascus (1890) and Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives at Sunrise (1902).
Our selection concentrates on the architecture of the Holy Land and Syria: city gates, mosque entrances, wells and the Western Wall, with guards, horsemen and processions at their foot. His architect's training shows in the exact stonework, and the palette is sandstone, white and deep shade.
The detailed street and gate scenes suit studies, hallways and living rooms, and the Jerusalem panorama works above a sofa or sideboard. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
