Artist

Elioth Gruner

Portrait of Elioth Gruner
Portrait of Elioth Gruner

Australian, 1882–1939

Elioth Gruner was an Australian Impressionism artist. 8 works are cataloged here, principally at Art Gallery of New South Wales. Elioth Gruner was born in Gisborne.

Elioth Lauritz Leganyer Gruner (16 December 1882 – 17 October 1939) was an Australian artist. A successor of the plein air Heidelberg School tradition in Australian art, Gruner is known for his high-key impressionist landscapes and his ability to capture the ephemeral effects of light. According to Norman Lindsay, Gruner "painted the purest light that ever has been seen on a bit of canvas".

Gruner won the Wynne Prize for landscape painting seven times, the most of any Australian artist besides Hans Heysen. One of Gruner's winners of the prize, Spring Frost (1919), has since become his best known work, and is regarded as perhaps the most loved Australian landscape painting in the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Works by Elioth Gruner

Collections represented

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