Peter von Rausch

Bernhard Peter von Rausch (born August 7, 1793 in Oettingen in Bavaria ; † April 7, 1865 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German portrait painter and lithographer who worked in Munich and Frankfurt am Main.

Life

Rausch was born as the fourth of 7 children of "Laminarus" (d. I. Blechner, Spengler) Johann Georg Rausch and his 2nd wife Walburga, nee. Hasenmiller, in Oettingen, at that time the capital and residence of the imperial principality of Oettingen. He attended the Catholic elementary school in Oettingen and enrolled on May 23, 1811 as a "student" in the subject of "history painting" at the Munich Art Academy . Johann Peter Langer , who was trained in Düsseldorf , headed the art academy and has been teaching a painting class since 1808. The two specialist classes for history painting, also newly established in 1808, were led by his son and student Robert von Langer and his former classmate at the Düsseldorf Art Academy,Moritz Kellerhoven ; Carl Heß (1755–1828) had been given instruction in the engraving class . Since the relatively new technique of lithography - called " lithography " only since 1803 - was not taught at the art academy, Rausch trained as a lithographer with Alois Senefelder in Munich or with his master craftsman Franz Weishaupt. While still in Munich, Rausch worked out portraits of famous personalities, which he probably also transferred to the stone himself for reproduction using the technique of lithography based on his own drawings or paintings. These include the portraits of Johann Alois and Amalie von Oettingen-Spielberg , the Bavarian royal couple Maximilian I. Josef and Karoline Auguste von Bayern , the pedagogue Kajetan Weiller (1762–1826) and the writer Friedrich von Schlichtegroll , as well as reproductions Paintings by other masters for the gallery of famous people of older and more recent times by Joseph Selb (1784–1832), published in Munich in 1817 .

In 1825 Rausch came “on the way to Italy, to Frankfurt a. M., where he first took up residence, overwhelmed with portraits ”. The Italian trip was only carried out in 1836, and in 1840 the artist finally settled in Frankfurt. Most of the portraits of women, girls and men painted by Rausch were created in Frankfurt, including a self-portrait that shows a view of Munich from the window of a fictional studio. Peter Bernhard von Rausch died on April 7, 1865 at the age of 71 in Frankfurt am Main. The background to his elevation to the “personal nobility”, which could only be carried out by sovereign rulers, has not yet been clarified. He was a member of the Frankfurt Freemason Lodge Socrates for steadfastness .

Works (selection)

• The dying Alexander (oil painting)
• Girl with Flowers and a Fruit Basket (1822)
• Portrait of a boy with bow and quiver (1826), Greifswald, Pommersches Landesmuseum
• Portrait of the Protestant pastor Franz Fresenius
• Portrait of the Protestant pastor Dr. Friedrich
• Portrait of the businessman Joseph Diehl , members of the Frankfurt Freemason Lodge founded in 1801, "Socrates for steadfastness"
• John the Baptist , commission of the Frankfurt Freemason Lodge "Socrates for steadfastness"
• Portrait of Georg Brentano (1833)
• Half-length portrait of the Frankfurt businessman Carl Weber (1834)
• Self-Portrait (around 1834)
• 2 portraits of a married couple (1849)
• Portrait of the Duke of Nassau ( Wilhelm I (Nassau) or Adolph von Nassau , Grand Duke of Luxembourg) _
• Portrait of the Elector of Hesse , probably: Wilhelm II. (Hesse-Kassel)
• Portrait of Princess Marie of Hessen-Darmstadt and by the Rhine , as Marija Alexandrowna Empress of Russia
• Portrait of Prince Felix von Lichnowsky , Count von Werdenberg
• Portrait of the Frankfurt actress Benesch as Emilia Galotti

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  Self-portrait in the studio in Munich

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  Girl with Flowers and a Fruit Basket 1822

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  Girl portrait

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  Portrait of two girls 1830

literature

• Draft for a certificate of origin for painter Bernhard Rausch from Oettingen. Local history museum, Oettingen 1847.
• Intoxication, Bernhard. In: Georg Kaspar Nagler (Ed.): New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, shape cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. 3rd edition, volume 12, 1842, p. 311 ( books.google.de ).
• The Socrates lodge for steadfastness in the Orient at Frankfurt a / M. in the first fifty years of her working life - a feast for her fifty-year jubilee. Frankfurt a / M., Fulda, Naumann 1851.
• Heinrich Weizsäcker, Albert Dessoff: Rausch, Bernhard . In: Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main in the nineteenth century . tape 2 : Biographical lexicon of Frankfurt artists in the 19th century . Joseph Bear, Frankfurt a. M. 1909, p. 177 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ): "Rausch, Bernhard, portrayed himself in half-length on a genre picture (1834)."
• Luitpold Dussler: The Incunables of German Lithography (1796-1821). Berlin 1925, p. 201 f.
• Intoxication, Peter von . 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. 44 .

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Peter von Rausch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to the handwritten register of the Royal Art Academy in Munich: Bernhard Rausch from Oettingen am Rieß , 15 years old ( 00138 Bernhard Rausch , digital-sammlungen.de )
2. ^ Heinrich Weizsäcker, Albert Dessoff: Rausch, Bernhard . In: Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main in the nineteenth century . tape 2 : Biographical lexicon of Frankfurt artists in the 19th century . Joseph Bear, Frankfurt a. M. 1909, p. 177 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
3. ^ Rausch, Bernhard . In: Catalog of the art exhibition of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Munich 1814, p. 32 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).