Christopher Rave

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Christopher Rave (born February 20, 1881 in Hamburg ; † January 13, 1933 there ) was a German painter and polar explorer and professor.

Life

Cushion stone marine painter Christopher Rave , Ohlsdorf cemetery

Rave was a well-known ship painter who lived in Hamburg. Between 1900 and 1909 he summarized the 8,000 years of seafaring history in 300 paintings, which were exhibited in Hamburg in 1911 and then sold individually. In 1910 he witnessed the stranding of the Laeisz five-master Prussia off Dover on board. The Prussia had collided with a steamer.

As a cameraman he was part of the crew of the ship Herzog Ernst , which undertook an Arctic Ocean expedition in 1912 under the leadership of Herbert Schröder-Stranz and Alfred Ritscher as captain. Of the 15 crew members, only seven survived, including Rave and geologist Dr. Hermann Rüdiger , whose foot had to be amputated by Rave while fully conscious. Rave documented the expedition on 35 mm film, among other things. After his return, the 90-minute feature film With the Camera in Eternal Ice was made , which was largely lost in the turmoil of World War II , when both the UFA archive in Berlin and Rave's studio in Hamburg were bombed. Around 2006, individual sequences of around eight minutes of the film material were discovered in a Moscow archive, where they had ended up as spoils of war confiscated by Major Iossif Manevich.

Christopher Rave shot himself on January 13, 1933. Due to cancer of the larynx, he could hardly speak at that time. His elaborately designed tomb (including pillow stone), designed by his student Valentin Kraus , can be found in the Ohlsdorf cemetery at grid square J 14 (north of Chapel 4).

Awards

  • around 1913: Rescue medal from the Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Works (selection)

Postcard reproduction of the painting by SMS Seeadler
  • Forest landscape , 1905, "House of Silence", Bielefeld - Bethel
  • Portrait of a scholar with an open book , oil on cardboard, 25.5 × 26.5 cm, 1906
  • Steam whaling ship in the northern Arctic Ocean , oil on canvas, 60 cm × 100 cm, 1910
  • SMS Seeadler , oil painting before 1924, possibly several replicas
  • The Brandenburg fleet off Emden , format 4.80 m × 3.50 m, owned by the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • TS “CAP ARCONA” at sea , oil on panel , 37 × 51 cm
  • Old land in the reddish winter light , oil on canvas, 60 × 100 cm

Fonts

Movie

  • In the eternal ice. A trip into the polar ice , film documentation of the expedition, Germany 1913, approx. 90 minutes, mostly lost

literature

Web links

Commons : Painting by Christopher Rave  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Lamprecht: German Silent Films 1913-1914 . Deutsche Kinemathek eV, Berlin 1969, p. 273 .
  2. ^ Frank Thadeusz: Harakiri in the polar sea. In: Der Spiegel online April 5, 2008, ( spiegel.de ).
  3. ↑ Description and picture of the grave with a short biography Raves.
  4. ↑ Carl Kircheiß : Whale hooo! World trips with harpoons, fishhooks and nets , Wilkens, Rendsburg 1950, p. 182.
personal data
SURNAME Rave, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and polar explorer
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1933
Place of death Hamburg