Leo Rauth
Leopold Rauth (born July 18, 1884 in Leipzig , † January 9, 1913 near Welschnofen in Eggental , South Tyrol ) was a German painter and graphic artist .
Life
Family and education
Leopold Rauth was the son of the Leipzig wholesaler and wine merchant Carl Rauth and his wife Elisabeth, née Holzammer. Like his older brothers Karl, Arno and Otto , he was a student at the König-Albert-Gymnasium , which he attended from April 22, 1895 to March 7, 1906.
From Easter to September 29, 1906, Rauth studied one semester at the Royal Art Academy in Leipzig . He then went to the Karlsruhe Art Academy to be trained in portrait and life drawing by Ernst Schurth (1848–1910) . Then he was a student of Waldemar Friedrich (1846–1911) at the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin . On October 14, 1908, he enrolled in Franz von Stuck's painting class at the Munich Art Academy . Here he devoted himself in particular to portrait, nude, figure and clothing drawing.
After studying in Paris and Venice , Rauth returned to Leipzig in 1909, where he quickly rose meteoric in the art sky . In the three remaining years of his life he produced an astonishing number of versatile productions as a painter and draftsman. His pictures have often been presented in exhibitions, where they were by no means only met with approval. And precisely because they have not been accepted without contradiction, they have received more attention than is otherwise the case with collective exhibitions. After the artist's untimely death, the renowned Leipzig gallery Pietro Del Vecchio held a memorial exhibition in honor of the deceased artist from February 2 to March 9, 1913. In March and April 1914, the Leipzig auction house Oswald Weigel auctioned part of Leo Rauth's artistic estate, including 56 oil paintings, 80 colored hand drawings, 41 etchings and colored prints. Further paintings were sold by his older brother Wilhelm Rauth's art dealer founded in 1913.
Artistic creation
In the early stages of his artistic work, Rauth was influenced by the painting style of the Munich school around Franz von Stuck. However, he soon found his own style, which was mainly reflected in a peculiar invention of speaking gestures and movements and a decorative, high-contrast color scheme. His paintings reveal a characteristic tendency towards a striking effect: Rauth's harem guard stands in front of a dark blue curtain with white polka dots, his naked winner is wrapped in a large blood-red cloth and in the painting Summer Spook ( Scherzo ) a brown and black-earthed faun hugs the light one Shining light of a young dancer.
The portrait is one of Rauth's best artistic achievements. Often he depicts the subjects in front of a flat background of colored or silver tiles, from which the colors and lines of the portrayed stand out strongly.
Rauth's motifs came from mythology , fairy tales and legend , but above all from the mummery and the masquerade of the carnival . The Munich carnival and the vaudeville and their glamorous living world made Leo Rauth an artist. Their luministic appearances, the grotesque of their movements, their fantastic trickery, their types and figurines have inspired him. In addition, he painted figures from the world of the racing course, night cafes and bars, women and men, elegantly dressed in fantasy costumes or according to the latest fashion and with precious gestures. As an artist, this brought him great popularity, but also the accusation of excessive aestheticism .
Rauth's favorite motifs also included Pierrot and scenes from the fairy tale Frog King . He designed the encounter between princess and frog in six different variations. Rauth's Frog King and Oath of Love were used by Philipp Rosenthal as designs for two of the popular Rosenthal porcelain figurines .
As a graphic artist, Leo Rauth also devoted himself to practical art . His posters were among the best of their kind. He also made etchings, designed bookplates , business cards, postcards, trademarks, book covers and book illustrations .
For the born line artist, the colored drawing became the actual artistic means of expression with which he was able to adequately implement the variety of his creative ideas. He made himself known most effectively through his drawings of dances . Rauth published a selection of these as hand-colored collotype prints in two now extremely rare folders . In color most distinctive figures every conceivable dances are shown, all the cultural, historical, from the mystical ceremony of the Egyptians started to Cancan and Cake Walk and two-step . To Mignon's egg dance and Salome veil dancing to famous dancers of their evolutions join: Cleo de Merode , Saharet in Kathinka-Polka, Ruth St. Denis with her snake dance, others with fantasy and Kabarettänzen. With admirable powers of observation, Rauth grasped the different types of dance, their rhythm, their temperament, in the movement and lines of the body, the arms, the fingers, in the way the dancers appear and move their feet. The ever new representations of eccentric positions, the graceful, seductive contortions of the body, this supple swaying and passionate curls of demanding, revealing dance gestures are quite astonishing. In these delicious dance pictures, Rauth also knows how to treat the costume, the small, intimate details of seductive lingerie, the flickering and gleaming of the fabrics, the lace and pearls with refinement.
For Leo Rauth, dance was a life theme. Already at the Munich artists' carnival festivals he appeared with stagings of bayaders and belly dances . In Leipzig, he designed the Municipal Theater Figurines a Rococo - ballet to the music Les petits Riens of Mozart .
Rauth, for whom even critics predicted a great future as a painter, could not perfect his artistic talent. It sounds like a foresight towards the sudden end of a short, intense artist's life when Paul Kühn wrote a few months before Rauth's death in his sensitive essay in an introductory and at the same time summing up about the young painter: “The artist to whom these lines apply, presents himself to us In the picture, in dark blue tailcoat and top hat, like an elegant attorney from Überbrettl , a little blasé, a little mocking, self-confident and cheeky and yet again dreamy, in memories of the Munich artist redoubts, life in its fleeting, tingling joys and melancholy transitions costing. Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday. "
Leo Rauth died completely unexpectedly during a stay in South Tyrol in Anton Dejori's inn on the Elisabeth promenade above Welschnofen. He was buried anonymously in the local churchyard between the ossuary and the cemetery wall. This part of the cemetery was abandoned and overbuilt in the 1960s.
Memberships
- Leipzig Secession
- German bookplate society
Exhibitions
- 1910 First annual Leipzig exhibition of the Secession (oil painting: man's portrait and portrait )
- 1911 Leipzig annual exhibition (oil painting: Aline Sanden as Carmen )
Obituaries
“A bitter surprise comes from a report from Tyrol to Leipzig. The well-known and much appreciated Leipzig painter and graphic artist Leo Rauth died unexpectedly on the trip to Tyrol. In accordance with his wishes, he was quietly buried in Birchabruck in Tyrol. With Leo Rauth, a very talented member of the young generation of Leipzig artists suddenly divorced us. Anyone who saw the complete exhibition of works by the strange painter and draftsman at Del Vecchio last year will feel the loss very bitterly. Despite his youth, Rauth had already created a special type in his colored dance scenes. - At first glance, Rauth's strange pictures could be distinguished from many others of the same genre. Grace in all movements and a surprising harmony of colors were what stood out in his specific art. However, he was also a pleasant figure as an oil painter. He used to face the most difficult tasks. We remember an open-air painting - tennis players in the summer light - in which the most delicate shades of color were reproduced on the canvas with a firm hand. His self-portraits are well known, precisely because of the masterful color effect. The young painter will not soon be forgotten in the art world, as he lives on in his drawings, which have earned an honorable place in all collections. By the way, on many of his sheets his own face can be clearly seen. The Leipzig artists and art lovers will give a loyal souvenir to the capable man who had to leave life so early, although he just knew how to hear the happy side of life in his art. "
“To conclude, I am bringing two sheets by the Leipzig graphic artist and painter L eo R aut h, who died too early. The Leipzig Exlibris Society honored his memory with a small celebration combined with an exhibition of graphic works; but at this point too, a short obituary for the talented artist should be justified. The two delicate leaves for Ric and Friedel von Carlowitz are convincing of this. - Born on July 18, 1884, the artist voluntarily passed away on January 9, 1913. The colorful existence could no longer satisfy his hunger for life, and the roses he was looking for made him forget the waving laurel. It was the world of appearances, theater, variety, ballet, which attracted and stimulated him above all; but he forgot reality through it and, awakening from his artistic dreams, could no longer bear it. He perished on the shine of a false sun, so his own light went out. - But let us lay the roses of life, the laurel of the memory of his art on the grave of the one who died early. "
Works (selection)
Venetian nocturno
Oath of love
Page song (self-portrait)
A welcome guest
In the spotlight
Hand kiss
Five O'Clock Tea
Ball whispers
Early stencil printing graphics
Grete Wiesenthal dances the Spring Voice Waltz
Arson
Summer haunt
Congratulations
Congratulations detail
Book decorations pussy
Book decoration S 'Wiener Komtesserl
Icarus
Sitting gentleman portrait
The white peacock
The white peacock (detail)
- painting
- Ash Wednesday
- Bacchante train
- Overheard flute player on the brook , 110 × 55 cm
- Bridge in Venice I , 48 × 63 cm
- Bridge in Venice II , 44 × 72 cm
- Calle della Croce in Venice , 66 × 39 cm
- Carnival song , 58 × 77 cm
- Flauto solo (man with pan flute in landscape), 75 x 75 cm
- Flute player in landscape , 90 × 90 cm
- Frog prince
- Violinist , 102 × 76 cm
- Goddess à la mode , 124 × 124 cm
- Well-wisher , 105 × 80 cm
- Well-wisher II , 48 × 35 cm
- Well-wisher III , 48 × 35 cm
- Harem guard
- Hate and love (girl with a wreath of roses and thorns), 80 × 124 cm
- Icarus , 80 × 80 cm
- In the spotlight , 37 × 27 cm
- Japan magic (Japanese woman) 100 × 70 cm
- Boys nude , 88 × 70 cm
- Carnival scene I (girl on sofa and Pierrot), 162 x 120 cm
- Carnival scene II (girl on sofa with lute player), 90 × 90 cm
- Whispers of love , 70 × 102 cm
- Oath of love
- Loin you bal
- Monk , 38 × 28 cm
- After the redoubt , 56 × 66 cm
- Nijinski as a dancing faun , 70 × 70 cm
- Parsival
- Piazza Trento , 46 × 34 cm
- Rio Marina, Venice , 47 × 67 cm
- Rose time (girl with roses on a couch), 72 x 72 cm
- Ruth St. Denis: Rose Dance , 29 × 29 cm
- San Michele in Venice , 80 × 130 cm
- Destiny , 200 × 200 cm
- Sleeping girl , 78 × 78 cm
- Veil Dancer (painted on the back), 94 × 68 cm
- The Schwabing painters
- winner
- Sommererspuk (Faun with lady in hoop skirt), 70 x 70 cm
- Solstice celebration. People in love 80 × 124 cm
- Mirror portrait (lady in green in front of blue tiles) 115 x 70 cm
- Star children (lovers on a meadow under a starry sky), 47 × 55 cm
- Beach from the Lido
- Street in Trento , 46 × 34 cm
- Susanna , 90 × 90 cm
- Venice: Fondamento nuovo , 80 × 80 cm
- Venetian nocturno , 75 × 75 cm
- Vicola Colico, Trento , 42 × 27 cm
- The white peacock , 40 × 40 cm
- Portraits
- Self (head drawing, b / w), 38 × 38 cm
- Even in a white sweater (painted on the back), 102 x 70 cm
- Even with a top hat and blue tailcoat , 169 × 73 cm
- Self, red carnival , 70 × 40 cm
- Even in front of the easel
- The painter himself , 175 × 70 cm
- Page song , self-portrait, 70 × 70 cm
- Ludwig van Beethoven (colored hand drawing), 38 x 38 cm
- Max Brüning , 124 × 124 cm
- Bubi , 115 × 115 cm
- Walter Bud , oil on cardboard, 47 × 62 cm; New Pinakothek , Munich
- Bruno Decarli as Orestes , 71 × 71 cm
- Dr. Fischer , 166 × 95 cm
- Hans Günther , 140 × 65 cm
- Sitting gentleman portrait , 65 × 46 cm
- Wolff von Pittler (Child Portrait)
- Prof. Rehbold , Geneva (colored hand drawing), 38 x 38 cm
- Aline Sanden as Carmen , 170 × 78 cm
- Franz von Stuck (colored hand drawing), 38 x 38 cm
- Franz von Stuck (with signature, colored hand drawing), 16 × 12 cm
- Grete Wiesenthal (colored hand drawing), 38 x 38 cm
- drawings
Colored hand drawings, all dimensions, unless otherwise stated: 38 × 38 cm
- A cupid I and II
- Arachne
- Ball whispers
- Bal paré
- The special one , 48 × 24 cm
- Blonde slave
- Bubi (based on the painting)
- Cabaret dance
- A Lady (From a ballet to Les petits Riens by Mozart)
- Dandy sitting on a beach chair
- Danse lumineuse
- Dansing song
- Unmasked
- Dessert (lovers)
- Domino (female figure)
- vanity
- Ice skaters
- Estella
- Mardi Gras congratulator
- Carnival devil
- Finale (Death and the Maiden)
- Five O'Clock Tea
- Flauto solo (based on the painting)
- lilac
- Florine
- The genius , 41 × 29 cm
- A welcome guest
- Servant ball
- Congratulations
- Greek dancer
- Cricket , 21 × 10 cm
- Large grill , 21 × 10 cm
- Hand kiss
- Holy hour
- Gentlemen from the sports field
- Honeymoon in the car
- In the gold bed
- Indian juggler
- Japanese
- Carnival scene I and II
- A gentleman
- Queen of the Night
- The painter , 34 × 23 cm
- Lenz
- lieutenant
- dragon-fly
- La Machiche
- The night
- Nijinski as a dancing faun
- Nijinski in a faun's afternoon
- The Persian (gentleman portrait)
- The place pike
- Praline
- The red tuxedo
- Red Pierrot
- Scherzo (based on the painting Summer Spook )
- Schwibs
- Siren (lady on the beach), 46 × 37 cm
- Study of Icarus , 61 × 61 cm
- Dance cavalier
- Tumult
- Till Eulenspiegel I and II
- Veil dance
- Under the stars
- Festival of Reconciliation
- The white peacock
- What does the world cost
- The greyhound
- Zéze
- Circus Knix , 16 × 15 cm
- Posters
- Leipzig Secession
- Corset house Koehler
- Felsche Chocolade Cacao
- Dajonzy cigarette
- Commemorative sheet for the ten-year foundation festival of the Leipzig Automobile Club
- Etchings
- Stairway to the academy in Munich
- Salome
- The fight
- bookplate
- Fridel von Carlowitz
- Ric von Carlowitz
- Illustrations
- Else Hofmann: Baroness Steffi , book jewelery Leo Rauth, Abel & Müller, Leipzig 1910.
- Else Hofmann: Muschi , Buchschmuck Leo Rauth, Abel & Müller, Leipzig 1910.
- Else Hofmann: s' Wiener Komtesserl , book jewelery Leo Rauth, Abel & Müller, Leipzig 1912.
- Otto Wilhelm Lange: Wieland the blacksmith. Drama in four acts , illustrations by Leo Rauth, Osterheld, Berlin 1912.
- Advertising stamp publishing house Abel & Müller
- Publications
- Dances. Eight original-sized (40 × 40 cm), hand-colored collotype prints in a folder. Verlag Röder & Schunke, Leipzig 1911. Contents: Saharet: Kathinka Polka; Ruth St. Denis: Snake Dance; Cake walk; Dansing song; Viennese waltz; Pierrot & Colombine: rows of stripes; Scherzo; Fascination Valse.
- Dances. Eighteen original-sized (38 × 38 cm), hand-colored collotype prints in a folder. Glass and Tuscher, Leipzig 1911.
- Dances. Reproductions of pen drawings, hand-colored. Kunstanstalt Riffarth & Co., Leipzig 1912. This work was produced in a one-time edition of 500 copies numbered by the press.
literature
- Paul Kühn: Leo Rauth. In: Illustrirte Zeitung. No. 3617 of October 24, 1912, Verlag JJ Weber, Leipzig 1912, pp. 767-770.
- Rauth, Leo . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 47 .
- Auction catalog, new set No. 46: Weichberger I Collection: Oil paintings, watercolors, hand drawings, along with some contributions from other origins. At the end: Leo Rauth's estate. Oswald Weigel, Leipzig 1914.
- Auction catalog, new series No. 47: Weichberger II collection: art sheets and art books. At the end: Leo Rauth's estate. Oswald Weigel, Leipzig 1914.
Web links
- Auction Results Leo Rauth on artnet
- Auctions Leo Rauth on arcadja.com
- Matriculation entry Leo Rauth Academy of the Arts Munich
- Membership in the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903
- . Auktionskatalog Oswald Weigel No. 46: Estate Leo Rauth, Part 1. Digitalisat the Heidelberg University Library
- Presentation of a Leo Rauth painting in the show Kunst und Krempel on August 8, 2015
Individual evidence
- ^ Carl Rauth (* May 23, 1847 in Ober-Ingelheim am Rhein ; † July 5, 1917 in Leipzig; Roman Catholic ). The Leipzig address book from 1912 states: Carl Rauth; Rheinische Kellereien- und Weingroßhandlung, Leipzig, Hospitalstrasse 12 pt .; Owner: Carl Rauth, apartment I. Etg .; Homeowner.
- ↑ Elisabeth Rauth, née Holzammer (* May 7, 1850 in Mainz ; † March 8, 1929 in Leipzig; Roman Catholic)
- ^ Karl Rauth (* July 12, 1876 in Mainz; † September 12, 1894 in Leipzig) died as a senior citizen of a heart attack. Compare: König Albert-Gymnasium (Royal High School until 1900) in Leipzig (publisher): Student album 1880–1904 / 05 , Friedrich Gröber, Leipzig 1905.
- ↑ Arno Rauth (born November 22, 1878 in Leipzig; † May 17, 1916 in the battle in front of Verdun as a reserve - NCO of the Landwehr , 10th Company of Infantry Regiment 64) learned the trade of merchant in his father's wine wholesale business, from 1905 merchant in Berlin .
- ↑ Annual report of the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig for the school year from Easter 1913 to Easter 1914 , Alexander Edelmann, Leipzig 1914, p. 10.
- ↑ Leo Rauth is registered in the Academy's register book under the number 4269. In painting class Ia he studied natural form drawing and the design of decorative forms with Professors Georg Belwe , drawing after still life with Klepzig, sketch drawing and shadow theory with Lamprecht, shaping according to the still life with Adolf Lehnert , building and decorative form theory with Naumann Photographing from nature and, with Delitzsch, writing in writing. Source: Archive of the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art.
- ↑ This painting class included: the Mexican Sandro Mendoza (from May 1908), Richard Mund (1885–1968; from October 3, 1908), Gustav Eyer (1887–1956; from October 3, 1908), Ernst Heidemann (from October 14, 1908). October 1908), Walter Hörwarter (1883–1963; from October 14, 1908), Erwin Tintner (1885–1957; from October 14, 1908), Walter Trier (1890–1951, from October 14, 1908) and Gustav Weiss (1886 –1973; from October 14, 1908).
- ↑ Oswald Weigel, auction catalog new series No. 46, p. 27
- ↑ Oswald Weigel, auction catalog NF No. 46, p. 28
- ^ Gallery del Vecchio. The estate exhibition of the recently deceased Leipzig painter and graphic artist Leo Rauth will open this Sunday. This special exhibition, which among some older works contains all the last works of the brilliant artist, is sure to arouse the greatest interest in all art-loving circles. Leipzig Latest News, No. 32, Sunday, February 2, 1913. - Galerie Del Vecchio. Sunday, March 9th, the last day of the extensive Leo Rauth-Leipzig estate exhibition and the special exhibition Professor George von Hoeßlin- Munich. Both exhibitions attracted the greatest interest, as evidenced by the numerous visits and the many sales that have been completed. Leipzig Latest News; No. 68, Sunday March 9, 1913.
- ^ Wilhelm Rauth (* November 4, 1879; † December 5, 1933 in Leipzig), married to Anna Rauth, née Fleischmann (* May 7, 1893 in Leipzig; † February 7, 1960 in Leipzig), was the administrator of his father's property initially opened a cigar shop in the business premises of Hospitalstrasse 12 and, after his brother's death, traded there as an art dealer.
- ^ Paul Kühn: Leo Rauth. In: Illustrirte Zeitung. P. 767
- ^ Paul Kühn: Leo Rauth. In: Illustrirte Zeitung. P. 771
- ↑ The bibliographical information regarding the number of portfolios, the number of prints contained in them and the publishers commissioned with the publication vary. Furthermore, it cannot be ruled out that shortly before or after the artist's death further portfolios were published in very small editions.
- ^ Paul Kühn: Leo Rauth. In: Illustrirte Zeitung. P. 770
- ^ Paul Kühn: Leo Rauth. In: Illustrirte Zeitung. P. 767.
- ↑ According to the report of a hastily assembled commission of inquiry, Rauth is said to have committed suicide in the attic of the house that was closed in winter .
- ^ Entry in the death register of the Catholic parish Welschnofen, January 1913.
- ^ Franz Kohler: Kleriker und Laien , Folio-Verlag, Vienna, Bozen 1994 [Welschnofen - Von der alten Zeit, Vol. 2].
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Rauth, Leo ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 16, 2015)
- ↑ This location is incorrect. There is evidence that Leo Rauth died in the neighboring village of Welschnofen, where he was also buried.
- ↑ Leipzig Latest News. No. 12, Monday, January 13, 1913, p. 8.
- ↑ Bookplate. Book art and applied graphics. German Association for Ex-libris Art and Commercial Graphics: Mitteilungen des Exlibris-Verein zu Berlin , NF, vol. 7, published on behalf of the German Association for Ex-libris Art and Commercial Graphics from the Heinrichshofen bookshop in Magdeburg, Otto von Holten, Berlin 1913, p. 96 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rauth, Leo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rauth, Leopold (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1913 |
| Place of death | Welschnofen , Eggental , South Tyrol |