Leonhard Rausch

View of a lake

Leonhard Rausch (born February 5, 1813 in Jülich , † April 19, 1895 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape painter and engraver of the Romantic period .

Live and act

Rausch was a friend and pupil of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , who was six years his senior and who, like him, came from Jülich, and is counted at the Düsseldorf School of Painting . In 1829/30 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and then again from 1839 to 1841. His teachers at the Düsseldorf Academy were Rudolf Wiegmann and Joseph von Keller .

The subjects he preferred were the landscape of his homeland, classical landscapes with biblical motifs and alpine landscapes.

In Aachen , Rausch became known in the 1840s for a series of steel engravings on which he depicted important historical Aachen squares and buildings.

He soon stopped erasing because the etching of the plates damaged his eyes. From its foundation in 1848 until 1870, he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association .

Rausch went on numerous trips, especially to the Alpine regions , where he found the motifs for a large part of his oil paintings, especially in Switzerland and Tyrol. Between 1843 and 1890 his works were represented 17 times at the art and painting exhibition of the Kunstverein zu Bremen . He also traveled to France and exhibited in Besançon and Antwerp .

Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter , who is also known as an art critic, praised Rausch for his naturalistic landscape painting, which was particularly characterized by diligence and faithfulness to nature.

One of his granddaughters married Wilhelm Schreuer .

Works (selection)

• The Aachen Cathedral , in the edge wolf, artichoke, Evangelienstuhl, Kaiserstuhl, chandelier and the thinking plate below , undated
• The Elisenbrunnen , in the edge the thermal baths and the bust of Queen Elisabeth , 1842
• The Lousberg , in the edge the Salvatorkirche, the legend of the origin of the Lousberg (devil and peasant woman) and view of Aachen , 1842
• The Frankenburg , in the edge the castle towers, legend of the Ring of Fastrada , 1842
• Drimborn, the antiquities in the grove in the edge , 1842
• Emmaburg , in the margin the legend of Eginhard and Emma , 1842
• Burtscheid , on the edge of the Burtscheid Viaduct , the Michael and Abbey Church, the spa garden , 1843
• Eiger and Mönch in Switzerland , oil on canvas, 1852
• Felsenkirche im Luxemburger Land , oil on canvas 65 × 85 cm, undated
• Romantic forest landscape , 118.5 × 165 cm, undated
• Tell Chapel on Lake Lucerne , oil on canvas, 1863
• Interlaken , oil on canvas, 1861
• View of Salzburg , oil on canvas, undated
• The Hohe Göll near Berchtesgaden , oil on canvas, 97 × 127 cm
• Return from the mountain pasture , oil on canvas, undated
• Large alpine panorama with Kochelsee , oil on canvas, 82 × 127 cm, undated
• The Susten Glacier , oil on canvas, 1892

Literature and Sources

• Johannes Fey: On the history of Aachen painters of the 19th century . In: From Aachen's prehistory. Announcements from the association for customers of the Aachen prehistory . Tenth year 1897, No. 4/8. Pp. 80/81. google-online
• Hanna Eggerath: Rausch & Romantik - the painter Leonhard Rausch , brochure for the exhibition in the Jülich City History Museum April 3 - June 9, 1996, Kulturhaus am Hexenturm. Concept and text: Hanna Eggerath. Ed .: Marcell Perse, Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, Jülich, 1996
• Hanna Eggerath: Rausch, Leonhard (Leonard) In: Hans Paffrath (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , pp. 126-128.

Web links

Commons : Leonhard Rausch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Paintings at artnet
• Painting Alpensee, art auction house Wendl
• View of Salzburg, Hargesheimer & Günther auction house

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )