Karl Raupp was a German

Germany

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 landscape and genre painter

Genre painting

Genre works, also called genre scenes or genre views, are pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes. Such representations may be realistic, imagined, or...

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Biography

After studying genre painting under Jakob Becker

Jakob Becker

Jakob Becker was a German painter.-Biography:He began his studies with Franz Nikolaus Jung in Worms. When he was 17 years old he started to work as litograph. His first important work was a panorama over the Rhine from Mainz to Cologne...

 at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt

Frankfurt

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, he became a pupil and zealous follower of Piloty in Munich

Munich

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 (1860-65), where he soon gathered a small school. After 1865, he opened a studio, taking private pupils in painting. In 1868 his reputation as a teacher gained for him the position of professor in the art school at Nuremberg, where he stayed until 1879, when he returned to his former residence to become professor at the art academy in Munich

Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

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Works

His finely colored scenes from fishermen's and peasant life around Chiem Lake, which form his favorite subjects, show equal devotedness in the treatment of landscape and figures, and include:

• “In the Face of the Storm” (1885, Dresden Gallery)
• “Peace” (1889, National Gallery, Berlin)
• “Serious Meeting” (1889, Münster Gallery)
• “Chiem Lake” (1898, Reichstags-Gebäude, Berlin)
• “A Boating Party on Chiem Lake”
• “Home Before a Storm”
• “A Calm”
• “Ave Maria”
• “Sport and Work”
• “Starting Home from the Monastery School”

He published a Katechismus der Malerei (Painting catechism

Catechism

A catechism , i.e. to indoctrinate) is a summary or exposition of doctrine, traditionally used in Christian religious teaching from New Testament times to the present...

; 3d ed. 1898).