Peter Rauth

Empress Elisabeth

Peter Rauth (born June 9, 1828 in Rum near Innsbruck , † 1896 in Heidelberg ) was an Austrian portrait painter.

Rauth studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich from October 30, 1852 and received his matriculation on December 31, 1852.

After graduating, he lived in Vienna and later in Heidelberg and worked as a portrait painter. He portrayed a. a. the young Emperor Franz Joseph I and the Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary . He also painted altar leaves, u. a. for the churches in Karres and Terfens in Tyrol .

Individual evidence

↑ according to birth entry in the baptismal register of the Thaur parish 1815–1828 , Folio 117, available at Matricula-online.eu . Deviating from this, the Biographical Lexicon of the Empire of Austria names Mils bei Hall as the place of birth.

literature

Messenger for Tyrol and Vorarlberg 1856, no. 147; 1857, no. 256, under the heading "Art".
Constantin von Wurzbach : Rauth, Peter . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 25th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1873, p. 69 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

personal data
SURNAME	Rauth, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 9, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rum (Tyrol)
DATE OF DEATH	1896
Place of death	Heidelberg

[1] rding to birth entry in the baptismal register of the Thaur parish 1815–1828 , Folio 117, available at Matricula-online.eu . Deviating from this, the Biographical Lexicon of the Empire of Austria names Mils bei Hall as the place of birth.