GAU Edward P. (I.)

1807 (Revel) - 1887 (St. Petersburg (?))

Painter, graphic artist

Biographical details are scarce. In 1830-1832 he studied at the Dresden Academy of Arts. In 1838, over represented in the Council of the IAH in St. Petersburg received a silver medal and the title neklassnogo (free), painter. In 1864 awarded the title of academician perspective watercolor painting.

greatest fame achieved images of interiors of palaces and mansions, sometimes worked as a portraitist. Implement the order of the imperial family, private orders. Sealed interiors of the Grand Kremlin Palace, Nicholas Palace in Moscow, St. Michael's Castle, the Winter Palace, the New and Small Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Tsarskoe Selo palace, Grand Gatchina Palace and other.

Exhibitions watercolors Hau repeatedly organized in Gatchina (1997, 2002).

Hau - one of the greatest masters of watercolor painting of the mid XIX century, his works are inherent in the thoroughness of execution, the accuracy of promising theories, delicacy of coloring.

most significant collection of works Hau has the State Hermitage Museum. Master's career also represented in the State Russian Museum, the Gatchina Palace Museum, State Museum-Reserve "Tsarskoe Selo" and others.