Hogarth William (1697-1764). British painter,
engraver and caricaturist whose innovations in
art and genius in depicting the English national
character give him an importance even beyond his
great talent as an artist. H. was trained as an
engraver on plate. He studied painting at the
rudimentary academies then open in London but
undoubtedly profited more from Ins study
of European paintings from engravings and his
incredible visual memory. Later he apprenticed
himself to Sir James Thornhill, marrying
Thornhill's daughter in 1729 and inheriting from
him the academy which was to be a forerunner of
the R.A. H. won an early reputation for small
groups and conversation pieces, e.g. Assembly at
Wanstead House, and for brilliantly captured
dramatic scenes, such as the many versions of
The Beggar's Opera. In 1731 he won a far wider
fame with the first of his story-series of
paintings, The Harlot's Progress. This form was
quite new, certainly to secular painting. The
series combined the appeal of the street ballad
with that of a play, having a strong plot,
allusions to contemporaries and a moral none
could miss. So popular were the engravings made
from this series that H. was forced to defend
himself by promoting a Copyright Act before
issuing the later series: The Rake's Progress,
Marriage a la Mode and The Industrious and Idle
Apprentice. Similar in style arc the 4
electioneering paintings and the famous О the
Roast Beef of Old England. H. campaigned
vigorously in his engravings against cruelty,
the drinking of crude spirit and
the domination of English taste by foreign
artists. He undoubtedly suffered as a painter
from the prejudice against native-born artists
and from his own popularity as a propagandist
and caricaturist. In 1753 H. publ. The Analysis
of Beauty. This was in part a polemic against
uncritical appreciation in the arts and in part
a serious contribution to aesthetics, describing
a 'line of beauty' supposed to be present in all
works of visual art. His history paintings, Pool
of Bethesda and The Good Samaritan were ignored,
his Sigismunda was abused; even the originals of
his famous engravings often remained unsold or
were sold for very little. More important, H.'s
unusual talent as a portrait painter went
unrewarded. Fine examples are Captain Coram,
Graham Children, William Jones, Self-portrait
with Pug, The Artist's Servants, a masterly
study of contrasting character, and the
vigorous, charming and technically fascinating
Shrimp Girl.
see also:
Hogarth William
"A Harlot's Progress"
Hohokam. Pre-historic N. American Indian
culture, centred on the Gila and Salt rivers,
Arizona; it fl, c. 400—1400 AD. Its colourful
products include remarkable polychrome pottery,
animal carvings in stone and quartzite (related
in style to Anasazi sculptures) and *cire perdue
copper castings.
Hokusai Katsushika (Nakajima Tet-Sujiro)
(1760—1849). Extraordinarily prolific Japanese
painter and graphic artist, to Europeans the
most famous exponent of the colour print, which
had great influence on Western painting. He
produced his greatest work between 1818—30, The Wave being perhaps his best-known print.
Holbein Hans the Elder
(b Augsburg, ?1460–65; d 1534). Painter and draughtsman.The date of his birth has been estimated from his earliest signed
painting, the
Death of the Virgin (Budapest, Mus. F.A.), which is
dated 148(?). His earliest surviving dated altarpiece is the St Afra
Altarpiece, produced for the church of SS Ulrich and Afra, Augsburg
(1490; Eichstätt, Bischof. Pal.; Basle, Kstmus.). In 1493 he was
recorded, buying a house in Augsburg, as ‘Hans Holbein the painter,
citizen of Ulm’; he was then working in Ulm with the sculptor Michel
Erhart on the Weingartner Altarpiece, depicting scenes from the Life
of the Virgin, for the chapel of the Virgin in the Benedictine
monastery at Weingarten (1493; panels, Augsburg Cathedral; carvings
untraced); here the style of the paintings reveals the influence of the
Netherlandish style of Rogier van der Weyden. By this date, however,
Holbein had already developed stylistic traits of his own: the ability
to depict individual facial characteristics, the clear and symmetrical
organization of his figures within the available space (here placing
them within various architectural structures, which serve both to
delineate the subsidiary scenes and to unify the separate panels of the
altarpiece) and the use of warm, glowing colour.
Holbein
Hans
the Younger (1497/8—1543). German
artist. H.'s father, Hans H., the Elder, had a
large workshop in Augsburg. When this was
disbanded, H. and his brother Ambrosius
apprenticed themselves to a painter in Basel. H.
soon won a wide reputation for his work
undertaken for the Basel book printers. Besides
designs for wood blocks, he was already painting
portraits and commissions for churches. In his
larger works a certain awkwardness and
overcrowding is noticeable. In 1517 H. visited
Lucerne and may have entered N. Italy. Returning
to Basel, he married and quickly became a
citizen of importance. At this period his fame
was spread throughout Europe by the ills to the
Luther Bible (1522) and the woodcuts of the
famous Alphabet of Death and Dance of Death.
Despite this success, H. was driven by
doubts of his financial future during the
disturbed conditions of the Reformation to seek
work in Britain. During his 1st visit in 1526 he
was patronized by the circle of Sir Thomas More.
He went back to Basel for a period, but was in
Britain once more in 1532. His patrons of the
1st visit were disgraced or dead. H. first
painted the German merchants of the steelyard
and was then introduced to the king. Until his
death H. was employed by Henry VIII in a wide
assortment of tasks, ranging from designing
court costumes, silverware, jewellery and
triumphal arches to painting the actual and
prospective brides of the monarch. Outstanding
among H.'s portraits are the superb Christina of
Denmark, George Gisze, The Artist's Wife and 2
Children, Anne of Cleves and his 'showpiece' the
double portrait, The Ambassadors. H. made many
drawings for portraits and those of the court
ladies are among the masterpieces of portrait
drawing. Of H.'s other work, his miniature
painting is important for itself, e.g. Mrs
Pemberton, and for its influence on British
miniature painting. H.'s outstanding early works
for churches are the Dead Christ and the
Madonnas of Solothurn and Darmstadt.
Holiday Henry
(b London, 17 June
1839; d London, 15 April 1927). English
stained-glass artist, painter and illustrator.
He studied painting in London at Leigh’s Art
School and the Royal Academy Schools, where he
was influenced by Pre-Raphaelitism. Contact with
Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s circle and the
architect William Burges introduced him to the
applied arts, and from 1863 he worked primarily
as a stained-glass artist, particularly in
collaboration with the glass manufacturers James
Powell & Sons and Heaton, Butler & Bayne. After
visiting Italy in 1867 he abandoned his early
Pre-Raphaelite style for one inspired by
Classical and Renaissance art, aiming to create
a ‘modern’ style of stained glass no longer
dependent on medievalism. His memorial window
(1868) to the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel
in Westminster Abbey and the complete glazing
scheme (1869–75) of St Mary Magdalene,
Paddington, London, illustrate the expressive
figure drawing and feeling for monumental scale
characteristic of all his mature work. In 1891,
dissatisfied with the working methods of the
commercial stained-glass firms, he established
his own workshop in Hampstead, London, and
experimented successfully with making pot-metal
glass. Many of Holiday’s later commissions were
for American churches; his windows (1898–1925)
in Holy Trinity, Manhattan, New York, reveal the
influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement in
their emphatic leading and use of richly
textured glass. As a painter Holiday is best
known for his Dante and Beatrice (1883;
Liverpool, Walker A.G.); his most important
illustrations are those for Lewis Carroll’s The
Hunting of the Snark (1876). He also produced
graphics in support of such social and political
causes as Dress Reform and Irish Home Rule. In
1892 he became editor of Aglaia, the journal of
the Healthy and Artistic Dress Union,
contributing articles and illustrations.
Holst
Richard Roland
(b Amsterdam, 4 Dec 1868; d
Bloemendaal, 31 Dec 1938).
Dutch painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer and stained-glass artist.
He trained at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (1886–90), under the
directorship of August Allebй. Having initially painted and drawn
Impressionistic landscapes, he started working in the ’t Gooi region in
1892, where, influenced by Vincent van Gogh and Jan Toorop, he made a
number of Symbolist drawings and lithographs. In 1896 he married the
Dutch writer Henriette van der Schalk. They both devoted themselves to
the recently founded Sociaal Democratische Arbeiders Partij. In the
years up to c. 1900 Holst produced among other things a series of
lithographs of political cartoons with socialist content, as well as
serene landscapes and paintings of girls from the village of Huizen. His
allegorical murals (1902; in situ), on topics such as ‘Industry’
or ‘Commerce’, in the new Koopmansbeurs in Amsterdam by H. P. Berlage
(1876–1903), marked an important point in his career as his first
opportunity to construct a monumental piece of work. Partly inspired by
the murals in the town hall at ’s Hertogenbosch by Antoon Derkinderen,
he developed a tight, stylized type of design, which he believed to be
ideal for visually representing idealistic and exalted thoughts. In his
murals (1903–6) in the headquarters of the Algemeene Nederlandsche
Diamantbewerkers Bond (ANDB) he developed these principles into a severe
system based on geometric foundations, which can be found in all his
later work. This includes more murals in the ANDB’s headquarters (1912
and 1936–7), a number of stained-glass windows, for example in the
Amsterdam Lyceum (1920–27), in the post offices of Haarlem (1923) and
Utrecht (1931) and in the cathedral in Utrecht (1926 and 1934–6), and
decorated marble panels in the Supreme Court in The Hague (1937–8; destr.).
In addition, throughout his career he designed sober, geometric
exhibition and theatre posters, book jackets, magazine covers and
programmes, mostly as lithographs. He also designed books.
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Homer Winslow (1836—1910). U.S. painter,
pictorial journalist and ill. He covered the
Civil War for Harper's Weekly and achieved
recognition as a painter with Prisoners from the
Front (1866). Between 1867 and 1880 his subjects
were broadly treated rural genre scenes, e.g. Gloucester
Farm (1874) but after a visit to
Britain (1881—2) he returned to violent
realistic paintings connected with the sea. e.g.
The Life Line (1884). Later he adopted an
Impressionistic watercolour technique.
Homme–Temoin.
French group of painters who held their first exhibition as
a group at the Salon des Moins de Trente Ans in June 1948.
Their manifesto, which affirmed their commitment to realism
and to communism, was drawn up and published by the critic
Jean Bouret. In the preface to the exhibition catalogue he
stated that ‘painting exists to bear witness, and nothing
human can remain foreign to it’. The best-known artists
associated with the group were Bernard Buffet and Bernard
Lorjou (b 1908). Buffet’s style, as represented by such
series as Flagellation, Resurrection (both 1952)
and Horrors of War (1954), illustrates the atmosphere
of ‘existential’ Angst that characterized the work of
many painters associated with Homme–Témoin. Lorjou’s the
Atomic Age (1950) is a tableau of post-war urban
suffering, oppression and spiritual longing. The painters were
obviously strongly influenced by the harsh and expressionistic
styles of Francis Gruber and Chaïm Soutine. In content, their
work developed almost into a pastiche of those contemporary
artists who protested against war atrocities or political
opposition to tyranny, such as Fautrier or Matisse.
Honthorst Gerrit van (1590—1656). Dutch
painter, trained in Utrecht, but in Rome by
about 1610. H. was very popular m Italy, where
he was known as 'Gherardo delle Notti' because
of his dramatically lit night scenes after
Caravaggio (Christ before the High Priest). H.
was largely responsible for bringing the
innovations of Caravaggio to Holland on his
return there in 1620. Enjoying an international
reputation, he was invited to the English court
in 1628 ((Charles I and Henrietta Maria with the
Liberal Arts) and to the Danish court in 1635.
As Dutch court painter he painted the Baroque
decorations at Huisten-Bosch.
Hooch Pieter de (1629—after 1683).
Dutch painter, the contemporary of N. Maes and
Vermeer of Delft and, like them, a recorder of
scenes of middle-class life. H. is first
recorded as 'painter and footman' in the
household of a rich merchant. After 1654 he
lived in Delft and his art declined when he
moved to Amsterdam, e. 1663, and tried to
portray a higher stratum of society. Like
Vermeer, he was interested in optics and the
fall of light. His colour harmonies are simple
and very effective. Among his best works are:
Courtyard in Delft, Wonan Peeling Apples,
The Pantry and The Linen Cupboard.
Hood Raymond
(b Pawtucket, RI, 21 March 1881; d Stamford,
CT, 15 Aug 1934).
American architect. The son of a prosperous box manufacturer in
Rhode Island, he had a strict, religious and inhibiting upbringing
that took some years to outgrow. He was educated locally, taking a
first degree at Brown University, Providence, RI, before
proceeding in 1899 to the architecture school at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge. In 1901 he joined the office
of Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, where he absorbed from Bertram
Grosvenor Goodhue a feeling for the Gothic tradition in American
architecture, which was to be an important supplement to his
grounding in Beaux-Arts Classicism. In 1904 he went to study in
Paris, enrolling in the Atelier Duquesne at the Ecole des
Beaux-Arts. He spent much of the next seven years in Paris or
travelling in Europe, apart from an interlude in 1906–8 when he
worked in Pittsburgh and New York for his friend Henry Hornbostel
(1867–1961). During this period he developed into a sharp,
confident, ambitious, worldly and entertaining young architect of
much potential, but with a conventional Beaux-Arts approach to
style and planning. His early projects are impressive chiefly for
their balance of Gothic and classical vocabularies.
Hoogstraten Samuel van
(1627-78). Dutch painter
of portraits, genre and religious subjects and
architectural fantasies. He studied under
Rembrandt in Amsterdam. He was famous for his
experiments with *trompe l'aeil and perspective illusionism, e.g. his peepshow box.
Hopper Edward
(1 882—1967). U.S. painter. He was
a student of *Henri and showed at the *Armory
Show. In the late 1930s he emerged as a major
realist painter of the U.S. scene, developing a
personal, severe style of depiction and going
against the current of European influence and
abstraction. His work is formally sharp with
harsh contrasts of light and shadow, and despite
its figurative content is essentially modernist
in spirit, which accounts for his reputation as
a master of 2Oth-c. U.S. art.
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Horta Victor
(born Jan. 6, 1861, Ghent -
died Sept. 8, 1947, Brussels)
an outstanding architect of the Art Nouveau style, who ranks with Henry
van de Velde and Paul Hankar as a pioneer of modern Belgian
architecture.
Trained at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, 1876–81, Horta
became a pupil of the Neoclassical architect Alphonse Balat. His first
independent building, the four-storied Hotel Tassel in Brussels
(1892–93), was among the first continental examples of Art Nouveau,
although it incorporated Neo-Gothic and Neo-Rococo stylistic elements.
An important feature was its octagonal hall with a staircase leading to
various levels. The curved line, characteristic of the Art Nouveau
style, was used on the facade and also in the interior. Other buildings
in Brussels in his rich, elegant style are Hotel Solvay (1895–1900),
notable for the plastic treatment of its facade, and Hotel Winssingers
(1895–96), as well as his own house on the rue Americaine (1898). His
chiefwork is the Maison du Peuple, Brussels (1896–99), which was the
first structure in Belgium to have a largely iron and glass facade. In
its auditorium the iron roof beams are both structural and decorative.
After 1900 Horta simplified his style, using decoration more sparingly
and eliminating exposed iron. In 1912 he became the director of the
academy and designed the Palais des Beaux-Arts (1922–28) in a simple and
severe classical style; his last major undertaking was the central
railway station in Brussels, begun just before World War II.
Houdon Jean-Antoine (1741-1828). French sculptor
who studied under J.-B. Pigalle and J.-B.
Lemoyne and worked in Rome from 1764 to 1768;
there he came under the influence of J. J.
*Winckelmann and his circle. For some tune he
followed the style of late Baroque sculpture but
gradually adopted the colder manner of
Neoclassicism. His best and most numerous
works are portraits, which include busts of Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire and George
Washington.
Hours, Book of. *Book of Hours
Hoysala. Medieval Indian dynasty of Mysore (c. 1110—1327). The Keshava temple at Somnathpur
(late 13th c.) is characteristic of H.
architecture with star-shaped plan, fine
filigree sculptural decoration and flat roofs.
Other classic sites are at Belur and Halebid. H.
sculpture includes a renowned stele (stone slab)
of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha and
sculptures of the sun god Surya and of Durga.
Huaxte. Mexican *Pre-Columbian culture fl. AD
900—1519. The H. produced large limestone
sculptures and pottery decorated with black
designs on a cream base.
Hudson River school. Name loosely applied to a
number of I9th-c. U.S. Romantic landscape
painters who worked mainly, though not
exclusively, in the vicinity of the Catskill
Mountains and the Hudson River. They were never
an organized group but shared a sense of
wonderment at the grandeur of the newly
discovered U.S. landscape. Painstaking attention
to detail is a common feature of their style.
*Bierstadt, *Church, *Cole and *Doughty are
among the many representatives of the school.
Hughes Arthur (1832-1915). British painter of
the later phase of *Pre-Raphaelitism. His
best-known paintings date from the 1850s and
include April Love and 'The Eve of St Agnes
(both
1856). H. also completed book ills for Christina
Rossetti's Sing Song (1872); he died a recluse.
Hughes Edward Robert
(1851-1914) is a well
known Pre-Raphaelite English painter. Some of his best
known works are Midsummer Eve and Night With Her Train
of Stars. Hughes was the nephew of Arthur Hughes. He was
also an assistant to William Holman Hunt. He helped Hunt
with the version of The Light of the World now in St.
Paul's Cathedral. He often used watercolor/gouache.
Hugnet Georges
(French, 1904-1974)
Hugo Jean
(French, 1894-1984)
Hugo Valentine
(French Painter, 1887-1968)
Huguet Jaume (b Valls, c. 1415; d Barcelona, before 4 May 1492).
Spanish
painter. He is thought to have spent time in Saragossa in his youth (c.
1435–45), and he subsequently worked in Tarragona before establishing himself in
Barcelona in 1448. He must, however, have had contact with painting from
Barcelona before he moved there, because the centre panel of an early retable
dedicated to the Virgin (Barcelona, Mus. A. Catalunya) from Vallmoll, near
Tarragona, shows his awareness of the style of Bernat Martorell in the profiles
of the two foreground angels, and of Lluís Dalmau’s Virgin of the Councillors
(Barcelona, Mus. A. Catalunya) in the illusionistic painting of the Virgin’s
jewel-trimmed garments. In other early works, such as the Annunciation
and Crucifixion from a small retable (Vic, Mus. Episc.), Huguet
demonstrated an interest in atmospheric perspective, but he abandoned this in
his later works.
Hunt William Holman (1827-1910). British painter
who, with D. G. Rossetti and J. E. Millars,
founded the *Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and
alone remained faithful to its principles. He
visited Palestine to obtain the correct settings
for The Scapegoat (1856). H. painted the famous
The Light of the World (1854). His unpretentious
portraits and small landscapes have considerable
realistic force.
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Hutter Wolfgang
(born 1928, Vienna, Austria) is a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and
stage designer. Hutter's imagery is
characterised by an artificial paradise of
gardens and fantastical fairytale-like scenes.The son of A. P. von Gutersloh, Hutter
studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Professor Robin C.
Andersen and then under his father. Together with Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf
Hausner, Anton Lehmden and Arik Brauer, he is one of the main
representatives and founding members of the Vienna School of Fantastic
Realism. Hutter was awarded the UNESCO Prize at the Venice Biennale in
1954. In 1966, he was appointed a professorship at the Hochschule fur
angewandte Kunst in Vienna.
Huyssens Pieter
(1577-1637).
Architect.
Hyper
Realism. *Super Realism
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. One of the
world's most remarkable books; written (1467) by
F. Colonna. The 1st ed., using F. Criffo's ]rd
roman fount, was printed in 1499 by Aldus
Manutius in Venice, with 200 woodcuts by an
unknown artist, and is in itself the most famous
illustrated incunabuluni. It is an obscure
allegorical narrative, written in a mixture of
languages including Italian, Creek, Latin and
Hebrew, and telling of a dream journey through
the realms of Art and Free Will. The numerous
detailed architectural descriptions are partly
fantasy and partly derived from a knowledge of
classical architecture. Colonna particularly
delighted in the descriptions of ruins and
decay, symbols of the impermanence of human
life. These imaginary monuments were an endless
source of themes to Renaissance painters,
sculptors and engravers.
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