Edmund Raven

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Edmund Friedrich Theodor Rabe (born September 2, 1815 in Berlin , † April 18, 1902 in Berlin-Friedrichshagen ) was a German battle, history and genre painter and lithographer .

Life

Rabe was the son of the architect Martin Friedrich Rabe and his wife Sophia Theodora (née Frick). He had an older brother, the architect Ottomar Friedrich Theodor Rabe, the painter Johannes Rabe was his cousin.

Rabe was instructed in drawing by the landscape painter Samuel Rösel between 1827 and 1833 . Rabe was taught in various classes at the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin . From 1833 he was then a student in the studio of the Berlin battle and parade painter Franz Krüger .

In 1835 Rabe went on a study trip through Germany with Reinhard Rudolph Hertzberg , August Theodor Kaselowsky and Eduard Mandel . Between 1841 and 1843 he traveled through Holland, France, Italy and Switzerland, as well as a longer stay in Paris (1842).

Rabe became a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin in 1843 and of the Association of Berlin Artists from 1872 to 1875 .

Works (selection)

  • Transport of prisoners 1813 , 1838, oil on canvas, 46 × 60 cm, formerly in the collection of consul Wagener, taken over by the Nationalgalerie Berlin in 1861 , lost in the Flakturm Zoo in 1945
  • Maneuver scene with baggage car , 1833, oil on canvas, 32 × 40 cm, most recently Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg (Königsberg Palace), lost
  • French soldiers on outposts in Russia , 1835, oil / canvas, 27 × 22 cm, most recently Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg (Königsberg Palace), missing
  • Lingering cavalry , 1839, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau
  • Maneuvers under Prince Karl of Prussia , oil / canvas, 42 × 47 cm, formerly the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, lost
  • Market in a French town, an equestrian company announces performance , 1842, oil / canvas, whereabouts unknown
  • Choc de cavalerie , 1843, oil / canvas, 55.9 × 77.5 cm, most recently: Kunsthandel, Toronto, October 22, 1981
  • Scene from the Wars of Liberation in 1844, oil / canvas, 43 × 56 cm, last: private property, kept on Barnitz (manor house), lost from 1945
  • Scène du guerre napoléonienne , 1843, oil / canvas, 57.7 × 78.6 cm, most recently: Kunsthandel, New York, February 13, 1985
  • 12 multicolored lithographs in landscape format with groups of men in different uniforms, around 1850, Museum Wolmirstedt
  • Area of ​​Kurfürsten and Genthiner Straße , 1860, oil sketch, 18 × 50 cm, most recently Rabe's estate (1903), lost
  • Between Schillstrasse and Magdeburger Platz , 1860, oil sketch, 30 × 47.60 cm, most recently Rabe's estate (1903), lost
  • View from the artist's window on Matthäikirchstrasse , 1860, oil sketch, 29 × 42 cm, most recently Rabe's estate (1903), lost
  • A hunting horse and a pony , oil on canvas, 32 × 39 cm, most recently the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (Babelsberg Castle and Flatow Tower), missing
  • Post of the Grande Armée in Russia , Potsdam City Palace
  • The message , Gallery Schwerin
  • Russian soldiers on post , administration of the State Palaces and Gardens

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Küster: "... beautiful talent in horses and soldiers of war" . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 7, 2001, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 10-24 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  2. ↑ prisoner transport in 1813 lostart.de, German Center Kulturgutverluste . Retrieved February 13, 2015.
  3. ^ Works by Edmund Rabe at museum-digital . Retrieved February 13, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b c Rabe, Edmund Friedr. Theodore . 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. 536 .
personal data
SURNAME Raven, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rabe, Edmund Friedrich Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German battle, history and genre painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1902
Place of death Berlin-Friedrichshagen