Jump to content

Karl Rauber: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
No edit summary
m {{for}}
 
(One intermediate revision by one other user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{for|German cardinal|Karl-Josef Rauber}}
{{short description|Swiss painter}}
{{short description|Swiss painter}}
{{no footnotes|date=October 2021}}
{{no footnotes|date=October 2021}}
[[File:Karl Rauber.jpg|thumb|200px|Karl Rauber (date unknown)]]
[[File:Karl Rauber.jpg|thumb|200px|Karl Rauber (date unknown)]]
'''Karl Rauber''' (8 August 1866, in [[Konstanz]] - 5 August 1909, in [[Solothurn]]) was a Swiss history, landscape, and [[Genre art|genre]] painter.
'''Karl Rauber''' (8 August 1866, in [[Konstanz]] 5 August 1909, in [[Solothurn]]) was a Swiss history, landscape, and [[Genre art|genre]] painter.


== Life and work ==
== Life and work ==

Latest revision as of 11:29, 1 April 2023

Karl Rauber (date unknown)

Karl Rauber (8 August 1866, in Konstanz – 5 August 1909, in Solothurn) was a Swiss history, landscape, and genre painter.

Life and work

[edit]

He was the son of Theodor Rauber (1841–1897), a music director and teacher. He began his studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Karlsruhe in 1884. Two years later, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts there. His primary instructors were Ferdinand Keller, Caspar Ritter and Ernst Schurth [de]. He became a master student of Claus Meyer [de] in 1890. It was then he started to focus on historical scenes, mostly of a religious nature.

After 1894, following advice from Leopold von Kalckreuth, he switched to landscape painting, "en plein aire". His first major exhibition came in 1896, at the Swiss Salon of the Schweizerische Landesausstellung [de] in Geneva. That same year, he moved to Baden and set up a studio in a former Salvation Army kitchen. He continued to paint Swiss landscapes, however, travelling to Limmattal, Wehntal, Glatttal, and the Katzensee. He also created an occasional religious work; notably a mural of the Last Supper for the village church in Wettingen; designed by the architect, Karl Moser.

Due to a chronic stomach ailment, he gave up his studio in 1905 and moved to Solothurn, seeking a healthier climate. He died there four years later.

Sources

[edit]
  • Erwin Haller: "Rauber, Karl", In: Argovia. Jahresschrift der Historischen Gesellschaft des Kantons Aargau, Vols.68–69, 1958, pp. 603–604 (Online).
  • E. Reinhart: "Rauber, Karl", In: Carl Brun (Ed.): Schweizerisches Künstler-Lexikon. Vol.2: H–R. Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1908, pg.596 (Karl Rauber is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive).
  • "Rauber, Karl", In: Schweizerisches Künstler-Lexikon. Vol.4: Supplement A–Z. Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1917, pg.357 (Karl Rauber is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
[edit]
  • "Rauber, Karl". SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland.
  • Rauber, Karl @ Kunstbreite