Otto Rauth (painter)

Otto Rauth (born May 17, 1862 in Heilbronn ; † December 21, 1922 in Hanover ) was a German illustrator, draftsman, painter and art teacher.

Life

CFKnickmeyer with Otto Rauth's family (1905), in the Hanover Historical Museum

Rauth was the son of the painter Carl Ludwig Rauth . He studied from 1887 to 1882 under Jakob Grünenwald and Alexander von Liezen-Mayer at the Stuttgart Art Academy and from October 1884 the subject of painting at the Munich Art Academy under “Fr. Seitz ".

In the 1890s Rauth settled in Hanover and has since painted in particular landscapes, still lifes and cityscapes of Hanover. He was supported by the city director Heinrich Tramm . Rauth worked as a teacher at the Hanover School of Applied Arts . For many years he was a member of the Kunstverein Hannover ; In 1923, one year after Rauth's death, he organized a large commemorative exhibition, the so-called "Autumn Exhibition", for the painter.

Works (selection)

Works by Rauth can be found in the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover.

1895: Das Hohe Ufer , watercolor Am Hohen Ufer with a view of the Begin Tower with the horse pond and the summer bridge
Landscape with an approaching thunderstorm
The temptation

He also made 14 illustrations for the book The Mayor and His Son: A story from old Heilbronn by Philipp Spieß. 24 watercolors with views from Old Hanover came into the collection of the Vaterländisches Museum in Hanover.

literature

Rauth, Otto . 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 .
L. Schreiner: The paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries in the Lower Saxony State Gallery Hanover. Textband, 1973, p. 387 f.
Hugo Thielen : Rauth, Otto. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 293.
Hugo Thielen: Rauth, Otto. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 516.

Web links

Commons : Otto Rauth - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Otto Rauth on artnet

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Hugo Thielen: Rauth, Otto. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. P. 293.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Helmut Plath : Hanover in the picture of the centuries. Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack & Co., Hanover 1966, pp. 100 f., 105.
↑ 00088 Otto Rauth . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . Book 3: 1884-1920 . Munich 1921 ( matrikel.adbk.de , Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
^ Paul Erich Küppers: Hannoversche Kunst at the 84th Great Art Exhibition in Hanover . In: Die Kunst - monthly magazine for free and applied arts . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1916, p. 355 and 360 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
^ Karl Alexander Wilhelm Stähle (pseudonym, Philipp Spieß): The mayor and his son: Story from old Heilbronn . Salzer, Heilbronn 1896.
^ Hermann Alexander Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer: Rauth, Otto . In: General Artist Lexicon . tape 6 . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 229 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Rauth, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH	December 21, 1922
Place of death	Hanover

[HBL-1] Hugo Thielen: Rauth, Otto. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. P. 293.

[Plath-2] Helmut Plath : Hanover in the picture of the centuries. Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack & Co., Hanover 1966, pp. 100 f., 105.

[3] 00088 Otto Rauth . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . Book 3: 1884-1920 . Munich 1921 ( matrikel.adbk.de , Digitale-sammlungen.de ).

[4] Paul Erich Küppers: Hannoversche Kunst at the 84th Great Art Exhibition in Hanover . In: Die Kunst - monthly magazine for free and applied arts . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1916, p. 355 and 360 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[5] Karl Alexander Wilhelm Stähle (pseudonym, Philipp Spieß): The mayor and his son: Story from old Heilbronn . Salzer, Heilbronn 1896.

[6] Hermann Alexander Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer: Rauth, Otto . In: General Artist Lexicon . tape 6 . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 229 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).