Royal Theatre, Dante and Virgil (1879), Allegories in Cupola and Venetian Room (fresco, 1854), Dresden Museum; Scenes from History of House of Solms (1856-58), Castle Wildenfels; Abraham and the Angels (1862); Reign of Creative Power (1865-71, fresco), Leipsic Museum; Myth of Bacchus, cycle in fresco (1877), Foyer, New Theatre, Dresden; Science, Plato and Aristotle with their Disciples, Cicero (1885). Frescos: Aula, St. Afra's School, Meissen; Apollo and Marsyas (1885).—Brockhaus, viii. 535; Illustr. Zeitg. (1872), i. 387; (1873), i. 124; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 700; xxi. 81.
GROTTGER, ARTHUR, born at Ottynowice,
Galicia, Nov. 11, 1837, died at Amélie-les-Bains,
Pyrenees, Dec. 13, 1867. History,
genre, and portrait painter, pupil in
Vienna of Karl Blaas; painted many excellent
portraits, and, taking up political genre,
attained renown through his able and original
treatment of patriotic subjects. Works:
Meeting of John Sobieski with Leopold I.
(1859); Warsaw in seven scenes (1861);
Poland in nine, and Lithuania in six pictures
(1863); In the Valley of Tears—thirteen
scenes (1865).—Allgem. d. Biogr., ix.
784; F. M. Aren, Arth. Grottger; Brockhaus,
viii. 546; Illustr. Zeitg. (1866)—(1867)—;
Wurzbach, xi. 420.
GROUX, CHARLES CORNEILLE AUGUSTE
DE, born at Comines, West Flanders,
in 1825, died March 30, 1870. History
and genre painter, pupil of Brussels
Academy under Navez. Medal, 1857; Order
of Leopold, 1860. Works: The Idler;
Ash Wednesday; Tavern-Brawl; Last Farewell;
Sick Child; The Walk (1855); Saying
Grace, Brussels Museum; Protestant Sermon;
Death of Charles V.; Citizens of Calais
before Edward III.; Pilgrimage; Alms;
Doctor's Visit; Decorations in Market Hall
at Ypres.
GRUBER, FRANZ XAVER, born in Vienna,
Sept. 28, 1801, died there, April 12,
1862. Flower painter, pupil of Vienna
Academy, where he obtained four prizes,
and of which he became professor in 1835.
In 1839 he was made member of the Milan
Academy. Works in the Museum, the
Academy, and Imperial Library, Vienna.
His brother, Karl Franz (1803-45), and his
sister, Katharina (1807-59), were also able
flower painters.—Allgem. d. Biogr., ix. 791;
Wurzbach, v. 379.
GRUND, JOHANN, born in Vienna in
1808. History and genre painter, pupil of
Vienna Academy, where he obtained two
first prizes; went then to Munich, Düsseldorf,
and Paris, lived for some time in Rome,
settled in Carlsruhe, and afterwards in
Baden-Baden. Works: Child and Guardian
Angel (1835); Hungarian Tinker (1838);
Bathing Girl (1840); Flight into Egypt,
Italian Robber Asleep, Italian Woman and
Child, Deborah, Carlsruhe Gallery; Roman
Peasant Woman playing with her Child
(1843), Vienna Museum; Invalid; Playing
Sisters; Girl going to Nunnery; Country
Parson's Birthday; Group of three Young
Girls (1853), Medea (1855), Last Rose (1865),
Fürstenberg Gallery, Donaueschingen;
Young Smokers; Margaret in Prison; Deborah;
Judith; Hagar and Ishmael; Diana;
Esther; Magdalen; Rebekah at the Well
(1879); Ganymede (1885).—Müller, 220;
Wurzbach, v. 398.
GRUND, NORBERT, born in Prague in
1714, died there in 1767. Genre painter,
pupil in Vienna of Ferg; travelled in Germany
and Upper Italy, and returned in 1741
to Prague, where he soon became the favourite
and the most prolific painter of his time.
His numerous excellent pictures, consisting
of battle scenes, kirmesses, pastorals, and
children's play scenes, landscapes, and marines,
are in private collections in Prague
and in the castles of the Bohemian nobility.
A Rural Dance, and A Banquet in a Garden,
attributed to him, in the Dresden Gallery.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., x. 34; Wurzbach, v.
397.
GRUNDMANN, OTTO, born in Dresden
in 1848. Portrait and genre painter, studied
under Professor Hübner and Van Lerius,
