Carl Heinrich Rahl

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller : Carl Heinrich Rahl (1820)

Carl Heinrich Rahl (born July 11, 1779 in Hofen near Heidelberg, † August 12, 1843 in Vienna ) was a German painter , etcher and engraver .

Life

Rahl, also called Carl Rahl the Elder, was the son of the calico printer David Bernhard Rahl, who initially apprenticed him to a silver worker, where he learned to engrave and was trained as a goldsmith. He then worked him Heilbronn for the Swabian industrial Comptoir by Carl Lang . In 1799 he moved to Vienna, where he completed his artistic training. Here he became known as a reproduction engraver. Rahl fell in love with Theres, the 25-year-old daughter of the Viennese citizen Lorenz, whom he married. The son Carl was born in 1812 .

Rahl became a member of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1815 and chamber engraver in 1829. After the death of Johann Friedrich Leybold , he was first deputy professor in 1838 and full professor in 1840 at the Vienna Academy. He wanted to save his son from the "insecure existence of an artist" and therefore initially planned for him to train as a businessman. But his talent for drawing and his son's persistent insistence changed his mind, he became his first teacher and finally allowed him to study painting. He became an eraser.

Works (selection)

The Rütli oath copper engraving

Rahl made his works according to both the newer and the old masters, where he engraved portraits as well as landscapes and historical pictures, for example the portrait La Présentation de Jésus au temple by the artist Fra Bartolommeo .

• The apple thief.
• The Swiss on the Rüttli in 1307 (engraved in steel)

Drawings or watercolors

• Self-portrait Carl Rahl the Elder Ä., Engraver. (Drawing)
• Self-portrait Carl Rahl the Elder A. (watercolor)
• Portrait of a girl. (Anna Rahl, around the age of 6)

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Rahl, Karl Heinrich . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 24th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1872, p. 244 ( digitized version ).
• Rahl, Carl Heinrich. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, p. 346 ( archive.org ).
• From Karl Rahl's artist life . Lecture given at the meeting of the Vienna Photography Society on October 15, 1901, by Prof. Dr. Cyriak Bodenstein. In: Photographic correspondence . No. 497 . Helwich, Darmstadt 1902, p. 8–17, 66–80 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Franz Vallentin (art historian):  Rahl, Karl Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 189 f.
• Rahl, Carl Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 571 .

Web links

Commons : Karl Heinrich Rahl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna Picture gallery Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Harvard University: Rahl, Carl Heinrich d. J. Vienna School . In: Catalog of the painting gallery . Verlag der Akademie, 1889, p. 372 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Note on the pictures The Battle of the Cimbers ).
2. ^ Catalog of the historical portrait exhibition in the Künstlerhaus, 1680–1840 . Verlag der Wiener Künstlergenossenschaft, Vienna 1880, p. 190 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
3. ^ Johann Gottlob von Quandt : Karl Heinrich Rahl . In: Directory of my copper engraving collection as a guide to the history of copper engraving ... Rudolf Weigel, Leipzig 1853, p. 97 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
4. ^ Letters from Carl Rahl from 1844–1850 . In: Die Kunst - monthly magazine for free and applied arts . tape 23 . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1911, p. 443-450, here p. 443 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).