Karl Rauber (painter)

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Karl Rauber (born August 8, 1866 in Konstanz , † August 5, 1909 in Solothurn ) was a Swiss history , genre and landscape painter .

Life

Karl Rauber was the son of the music director and music teacher Theodor (1841-1897), who came from Konstanz and worked in Baden , and Bertha, née Albrecht. The family moved to Muri in 1870 .

From 1884 he attended the arts and crafts school in Karlsruhe. From 1886 he was a student of Ferdinand Keller , Caspar Ritter and Ernst Schurth at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts . In 1890 he became a master student of Claus Meyer and shifted to the field of portraits, genre painting and historical compositions, mostly religious.

He initially dealt with portrait painting. His history pictures also include religious motifs. From 1894 he was active in open-air landscape painting on the initiative of Leopold von Kalckreuth . His most important work, which he created in the Karlsruhe years, was called The Preparation for the Festival and was shown in 1896 in the Swiss Salon of the Swiss National Exhibition in Geneva .

In 1896 Rauber finally returned to Baden, where he set up a studio in the former Salvation Army restaurant. He then painted many figure and landscape pictures that show the Limmattal , Wehntal , Glatttal and Katzensee .

Rauber was a member of the Aarau section of the GSMBA and exhibited regularly at the Swiss Salon and at the rotating exhibitions of the Swiss Art Association. He also created an altar painting for the church in Triengen ; For the village church of Wettingen built by Karl Moser he created the large mural Last Supper .

Rauber had to give up his studio in Baden in 1905 as a result of a chronic stomach ailment and moved to Solothurn, where he died four years later.

Works (excerpt)

  • Branch in Blute , 1904
  • The apple peeler , (oil on canvas; mounted on Pavatex)

literature

  • Erwin Haller : Rauber, Karl. In: Argovia, annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, vol. 68–69, 1958, pp. 603–604 ( digitized version ).
  • Swiss artist lexicon. 4 vols. Huber, Frauenfeld 1905. [Reprint: Kraus, Nendeln 1982.]
  • General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Seemann, Leipzig 1907, 37th volumes, [paperback edition: DTV, Munich 1992].
  • Biographical lexicon of Swiss art. 2 vols. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theodor Rauber (1841-1897). In: Argovia. Retrieved August 25, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b Rudolf Vierhaus : Entry on Karl Rauber In: "German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE): Poethen-Schlüter". Walter de Gruyter, 2005.
  3. ↑ Die Apfelschälerin (Fischer No. 1750) ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fischerauktionen.ch
personal data
SURNAME Rauber, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1909
Place of death Solothurn