Louis August Ludwig Tannert (28 October 1831 – 26 March 1915), who has also been referred to as W. L. Tannert, was a painter from Germany who had a significant career as art educator and curator in

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. He studied at the

Düsseldorf school of painting Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city ...

and the Royal Academy of Dresden. He arrived in Melbourne on board the ''Kent'' on 17 December 1876 and was soon showing his works in the city, mostly

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s in the style of the

. On the recommendation of

Eugene von Guerard Johann Joseph Eugene von GuérardHis first name is variously spelled "Eugen", "Eugene", "Eugène", one source mentions "Jean" (instead of "Johann"); his surname is spelled "Guerard" or "Guérard". The most frequent combination is that used by t ...

he was offered the position of head master of the South Australian School of Design, which he took up in October 1881. He resigned in 1892 and returned to Germany but died in Melbourne. He was curator of the

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1882–1889.

Some works

''Woman Spinning'' Düsseldorf 1870 Art Gallery of South Australia''The Birthday'' etching after oil painting by Tannert''The Birthday''; description
*''Our Lady of Lourdes'' in St. Ignatius' Church,

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.
''Paddy's Market'' 1878 National Gallery of Australia''Children's Concert'' ca.1881 Art Gallery of South Australia
*Portrait of E. T. Smith, 1882
''Aboriginal Queen'' 1891 Art Gallery of South Australia

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tannert, Louis Australian art educators Australian curators German genre painters 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters