Ignaz Raffalt

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Ignaz Raffalt (born July 21, 1800 in Weißkirchen , † July 6, 1857 not far from Hainbach near Vienna ) was an Austrian painter .

Ignaz Raffalt, self-portrait
Ignaz Raffalt, lithograph by Gabriel Decker , 1846
Ignaz Raffalt, Before the thunderstorm. (1847)

Life

Raffalt was born out of wedlock to Maria Gröbner in the Styrian market town of Weißkirchen. In 1802 his mother married the local innkeeper Lorenz Raffalt in Murau and his single parentage was thereby legitimized. He spent the years of his childhood and early youth in Murau, where he had to work early on in his parents' inn on the "Upper Market". Even then, he was intensively involved in painting in his leisure hours.

Contrary to the intentions of his foster father, who wanted to train him as a businessman, Raffalt went to Vienna in 1820 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts with Johann Peter Krafft , Joseph Mössmer and Anton Petter . However, he had to earn his living by painting portraits.

In 1826 after completing his studies, he went back to Murau and worked again in his parents' inn. In those years Raffalt also wandered through the Alpine countries of Styria and Carinthia . He devoted himself intensively to the representation of rural scenes and atmospheric mountain landscapes. After the death of his father in 1833, he took over his restaurant and now increasingly painted still lifes and genre pictures .

Archduke Johann , with whom Raffalt was friends, and a great exhibition success in 1837 prompted him to move first to Graz and later, in 1840, to Vienna. Here Raffalt turned increasingly to landscape painting. The predominantly small-format picture creations from that time show his great preference for the implementation of a wide variety of weather and light situations. The wide plains and floodplains on the Danube , Waag and March were particularly well suited for these compositions .

During one of his art excursions, Raffalt suffered a fatal stroke near Hainbach in the Vienna Woods . He was buried "in a place that could hardly be thought more charming for a painter's grave " in the now-abandoned Mariabrunn cemetery.

Ignaz Raffalt was married and two of his sons, Johann Gualbert and Joseph, followed in their father's footsteps, albeit not so successfully.

Works

The years mean: In the year mentioned, the artist's pictures were exhibited or offered for sale.

  • 1839: "Kesselflicker"; "A peasant apartment"; “The Farmer and the Waitress”; "Iron hammer"; "Country People".
  • 1840: "Kitchen Appliances"; "The village inn".
  • 1841: “The Bridal Suit”; "Peasant Wedding".
  • 1842: "Landscape with Staffage".
  • 1843: "Partie an der Donau".
  • 1844: "Thunderstorm Evening"; "Evening landscape"; "Danube area".
  • 1845: "Mill in Upper Styria"; "Foggy Landscape".
  • 1846: “The cloister of Murau”; “The front house of a farm in the Upper Styrian mountains”; "The gray day"; "Aulandschaft".
  • 1847: "Evening Landscape"; "The tavern in the mountains"; “Postillons returning home after the rain”.
  • 1848: "Landscape with coal wagons"; "Evening landscape with a fisherman's hut"; "Landscape on the Danube with a ship train"; "Landscape with Fog".
  • 1850: "Mountain Landscape"; "Tavern on the street"; "Dusk in late autumn"; "Aupartie"; "Evening landscape".
  • 1851: “Parish Fair in the Country”; "Rest of an Oberland ship train"; "A ferry on the Danube".
  • 1852: "Landscape with Straw Huts"; "Danube area"; "Road Workers on a Hill"; "The hut by the stream"; "Landscape with Approaching Rain"; "Fisherman's Hut in the Twilight"; “Parish fair in the country”.
  • 1853: "Country inn"; "Evening landscape"; "Tavern scene"; "Landscape on the Waag"; "Dawn".
  • 1854: "Part of a country town"; "Landscape with a Prayer Column"; “End of the village”; "The brickworks with staffage".
  • 1855: "Rural Inn"; "Game in Marchfeld".
  • 1856: "Hungarian Landscape"; "A country party company"; "Mountain landscape with a view of the sun"; "Landscape in April"; “Farm in Lower Styria”; "Wirtshaus an der Allee"; "Autumn landscape in Lower Styria".
  • 1857: "Old Mill House"; "Landscape in Lower Styria".
  • 1858: "The Kotige Straße"; "Rain landscape on the wide wall"; "Target shooting in the upper Murtale"; "Thunderstorm Evening"; "Hungarian weekly market"; “In front of a Hungarian village”; "Game near Klosterneuburg"; “Hof in Klosterneuburg”; "Horses at the well".
  • 1859: "Partie from Carinthia".

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personal data
SURNAME Raffalt, Ignaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Weißkirchen in Styria
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1857
Place of death Hainbach