Alexander Rothaug

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Alexander Rothaug (born March 13, 1870 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died March 5, 1946 there ; full name: Alexander Theodor Rothaug) was an Austrian painter and illustrator.

Life

Alexander Rothaug was born in 1870 to Theodor Rothaug and Karoline Rothaug (née Vogel). The maternal ancestors were also painters and sculptors. Alexander received his first painting lessons from his father Theodor with his two years older brother Leopold Rothaug .

In 1884 he began an apprenticeship as a sculptor with Johann Schindler (1822-1893), but in 1885 he switched to the Vienna Academy of Arts to study painting with August Eisenmenger , Christian Griepenkerl and Franz Rumpler . The oriental painter Leopold Carl Müller , with whom Alexander Rothaug studied until his death in 1892 , also had an important influence as a teacher .

In 1892 he moved to Munich, where he worked as an illustrator for the humorous magazine Die Fliegende Blätter . In 1896 he married Ottilie Lauterkorn. He goes on study trips to Dalmatia , Italy and Rügen . In May 1910 he became a member of the cooperative of visual artists in Vienna. In 1911 an extensive article on Alexander Rothaug appears in the journal Kunst-Revue . In 1912 he stayed on Mallorca at the invitation of Archduke Ludwig Salvator . Rothaug publishes the publication “Sketches from Miramar” on this stay.

In 1933 Rothaug published a systematization of the human body in the sense of a theory of proportions under the title “Statics and Dynamics of the Human Body” in the form of a loose-leaf collection of 10 sheets . He also wrote a 38-page treatise entitled “Knowledge in Painting” with the three-page appendix “Thoughts on Art and the Artist”.

His honorary grave is on the Grinzinger Friedhof (group 15, row 1, number 2) in Vienna.

The fruits of the sea (around 1930)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1900: Exhibition in the royal glass palace in Munich, shown: "Magic sleep"
  • 1909: 35th annual exhibition in the Vienna Künstlerhaus , shown: "Waldfee" and "Frühlingsreigen"
  • 1909: Autumn exhibition in the Vienna Künstlerhaus, shown: "Wies-Quelle" and "Psyche at the entrance to the underworld"
  • 1911: Anniversary exhibition of the watercolorists' club in Vienna
  • 1912: 27th exhibition of the Watercolorist Club in Vienna, December 1912 to January 1913
  • 1915: Exhibition of the four Viennese artist associations: Künstlerhaus, Secession, Hagenbund and Bund Österreichischer Künstler, shown: "Lethe"
  • 1919: 33rd exhibition of the watercolorists' club in Vienna
  • 1938: Large German art exhibition in the House of Art in Munich
  • 1941: Collective exhibition in the Künstlerhaus Vienna together with Maximilian Lenz , Johann Victor Krämer , Ernst Graner and Gottlieb Theodor von Kempf

Awards

  • 1888: Lampi Prize from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
  • 1889: Golden Füger Medal of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
  • 1890: “Special School Prize” from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
  • 1890: Franz Joseph Gold Scholarship
  • 1913: Baron Richard Drasche honorary award

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Wolfbauer: Alexander Rothaug . In: Kunst-Revue (supplement to Austria's illustrated newspaper) . No. 17 . Munich 1911, p. 172 .
personal data
SURNAME Rothaug, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rothaug, Alexander Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1946
Place of death Vienna