Johann Gualbert Raffalt

Johann Gualbert Raffalt (born July 9, 1836 in Murau , † August 9, 1865 in Rome ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Johann Gualbert was born as the son of the well-known Styrian landscape painter Ignaz Raffalt and his wife. At that time, his parents ran an inn on the "Upper Market" in Murau. He was barely four years old when the family moved to Vienna . The talented boy received his first painting lessons from his father.

From 1851 to 1855 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where in 1853 he was able to earn an award for his study portraits painted in oil , which enabled him to exempt him from military service. In the following years he often traveled and wandered through the Hungarian counties , producing numerous studies and pictures. Because of his great fondness for Hungarian motifs, he was nicknamed “the Puszta painter” even then .

Johann Gualbert visited Paris in 1861 and in 1863 he spent a long period in Dalmatia and Montenegro . In April 1865 he traveled to Rome. However, he died there in August, at the age of 29. Johann Gualbert Raffalt was buried in what was then the “German cemetery” in this city.

Works

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

• 1862: "Fair in Lower Hungary".
• 1863: “Fountain near Ragusa”; "Hungarian Gypsy Camp".
• 1864: "Hungarian Horse Train"; "Hungarian route"; "Hungarian wagon".
• 1865: "Motif from Upper Hungary"; "Portrait Study"; “On the Tisza”.
• 1866: "Gypsies".
• 1868 and 1869: “Market”; "Hungarian pub"; "Nature Study".
• 1870: "Hungarian Village"; "Hungarian homestead"; "Draft cattle"; "Evening landscape".

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Raffalt, Johann Gualbert . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 24th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1872, p. 220 f. ( Digitized version ).
• G. Gsodam:  Raffalt Johann Gualbert. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 387 f. (Direct links on p. 387 , p. 388 ).