Karl Kahler b. 1855

  • Artist (Painter)
Karl Kahler was a painter and illustrator who completed a series of three Melbourne Cup paintings including 'Flemington Lawn on Cup Day' which was described by the Bulletin in 1889 as 'a veritable page in the history of Australia'.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1996
Name
Karl Kahler
Birth date
1855
Death date
1906
Death place
None
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist
  • Artist (Painter)
Active Period
  • c.1887- c.1890
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

painter and illustrator.

Flemington Lawn on Cup Day , one of series of three Melbourne Cup paintings by Kahler engraved by Goupil, Paris, in 1887 and published with a key by Carl Pinschof at Melbourne in 1890. Described in the Bulletin of 19 January 1889 as 'a veritable page in the history of Australia’.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
associate of
Carl Pinschof
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Flemington Lawn on Cup Day
Date
1887
Citations:
  • Brown, Anna, (c.1999), Joan Kerr Archive, (Place: National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT)
  • McCulloch, Alan, (1984), Encyclopedia of Australian Art, (Place: Melbourne, 2nd edn)