Oscar Rex

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Oscar Rex , spelling of the first name also Oskar (born March 26, 1857 in Graz , † February 8, 1929 in Prague ) was an Austrian genre painter .

Madonna and Child
Bar Mitzvah
Father of the German students in Prague (around 1905)

Life

Oscar Rex grew up in his hometown of Prague. From 1876 to 1877 he was a member of the Corps Austria and from around 1889 of the Corps Palaio-Austria in Prague.

In January 1878 he went to Munich to study at the Academy of Fine Arts . From 1881 he was then a student in Paris with Mihály von Munkácsy (still 1886), Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre . He returned to Prague around 1890.

In 1889 he took part in an exhibition of the Munich artists' cooperative. In 1891 a drawing by him was shown at the annual exhibition of visual artists in Vienna. At the Paris World Exposition in 1900 the work was honored by him with a bronze medal. Rex became famous shortly before the First World War , when a cycle of over 30 paintings he had created with scenes from the life of Napoleon Bonaparte was shown in 38 cities.

family

Rex came from a medical family. His grandfather was the surgeon Franz Rex (1795–1855), who came from Brno and practiced in Prague. Oscar Rex was born the son of the chief medical officer and head of the Prague garrison hospital Ignaz Rex (1822-after 1900) and his wife Emma Schulz (1832-1884). Oscar's brother was the medicine professor Hugo Rex . Oscar Rex was married to Marie Eudes (* 1860) for the first time and after her death to Nora Thébauet (* 1867) from Paris.

Works (selection)

painting

  • In the park of Malmaison
  • C'est fini (representation of Napoleon on the beach of St. Helena)

Books

  • Praha depending Praha [= Prague Prague], Prague. Karel Bellmann undated (. = Book with 30 Phototypien of ink drawings of Rex Shown are scenes from everyday life in Prague) Digitalisat
  • K. and K. , Prague: Bellmann 1893 (= portfolio with 40 mounted phototypes after paintings by Oscar Rex. Depicted are scenes from Austrian military service)
  • Illustrations for: Ernst Wenke: History of the kuk 1. Bohemian Dragoon Regiment Kaiser Franz , Prague: Verlag des Regiment, 1896

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Jürgen Herrlein : Palaio-Austria. A forgotten Prague corps. In. Then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, 2010, pp. 454–457.
  2. ↑ Entry in the register of the Academy of Fine Arts
  3. ^ Entry in the address directory of the Société des artistes français , 1886.
  4. ↑ Note in the catalog
  5. ↑ Proof in the Czech language.
  6. ↑ Information on the police registration form, Prague, for Franz Rex
  7. ↑ Death notice for Emma Schulz in the Prager Tagblatt dated January 31, 1884
  8. ↑ Information on the police registration form, Prague, for Ignaz Rex
  9. ↑ Information on the police registration form, Prague, for Oskar Rex
  10. ^ Fuchs, Die Österreichischen Maler, p. 350

Web links

Commons : Oscar Rex  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files


personal data
SURNAME Rex, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rex, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1929
Place of death Prague