Karl Roux

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Karl Roux: Landscape in the high mountains

Karl Roux (born August 14, 1826 in Heidelberg , † July 23, 1894 in Mannheim ) was a German painter and director of the Grand Ducal Gemäldegalerie Mannheim.

Life

Karl Roux was the son of the painter Jakob Wilhelm Roux and his second wife Charlotte Mariana Wippermann. Roux received his first artistic lessons from his father. At the age of 18, Roux became a student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1844 under the direction of Carl Wilhelm Huebner , whose student he became in 1847. At the end of May 1848, Roux went to Freiburg with his cousin and college friend Anselm Feuerbach . For fear of being drafted into the military due to the outbreak of the Baden Revolution in spring 1848 , they traveled on to Munich , where he met the painter Carl Theodor von Piloty and his brother Ferdinand at the Academy of Fine Arts there . There, Roux and Feuerbach shared a studio on Löwenstrasse (later Schellingstrasse ) in Schwabing and worked with the painter Carl Rahl . From Munich, Roux went on a study trip to the Netherlands, Belgium and France. In October 1850 in Antwerp , he enrolled at the local Academy of Fine Arts and studied under Gustave Wappers . From 1851 he studied in Paris . From 1855 Roux finally settled in Karlsruhe and taught at the Grand Ducal Baden Art School there until 1867 under its director Johann Wilhelm Schirmer . There Roux married Alice, a daughter of the Mint Councilor Ludwig Kachel . His wife died in 1865 and three years later Roux went back to Munich. From 1868 to 1881 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts before he was appointed director of the Grand Ducal Picture Gallery in Mannheim in 1882. Four weeks before his 68th birthday, Karl Roux died on July 23, 1894 in Mannheim.

His in-laws were the painter Ludwig tile and the architect Gustav tile , by marriage to Louise tile Bender thus its Schwippschwägerin .

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In his early works, Roux thematized historical events in the style of the battle painting by Philips Wouwerman ; u. a. Let’s name a rider on the run , a scene from the Thirty Years War . Over time, Roux found his own style in genre painting , in which he portrayed scenes from popular life. The art critics here praised his depictions of animals; whereby Roux was not committed to animal painting , but to the genre.

Works (selection)

  • Horsemen on the Run (1847)
  • Hans and Verene (1861)
  • Dorothea with the team of oxen (1863, after Goethe)
  • Haymaking
  • Cattle market of the Munich Oktoberfest
  • Herd at the Achensee

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Roux  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Karl Roux , from daxermarschall.com, accessed on August 14, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Ecker: Anselm Feuerbach. Life and work. Critical catalog of the paintings, oil sketches and oil studies, Munich 1991, p. 31 and footnote 155
personal data
SURNAME Roux, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roux, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1894
Place of death Mannheim