Johann Anton Ramboux

The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Trier. Work by Johann Anton Ramboux is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Museum Catharijneconvent, Aartsbisschoppelijk Museum, Alte Nationalgalerie and Print Collection.

• Born — 5 October 1790 • Birthplace — Trier, Electorate of Trier, Holy Roman Empire • Died — 2 October 1866 • Place of death — Cologne, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia • Education — * Royal Academy of Fine Arts • Beaux-Arts de Paris • Known for — Lithography • Movement — Nazarene • Awards — Honorary Citizen of Trier

He was born in Trier. His father came from Savoy and his mother was from a famous family of goldsmiths. Christoph Hawich, his drawing teacher at the Bürgerschule (a type of commercial preparatory school) in Trier noted his artistic talent. As a result, in 1803 he received a recommendation to study with Jean-Henri Gilson (1741–1809), a former Benedictine monk who taught art in Florenville. After four years there, he received a further recommendation to study with Jacques-Louis David in Paris, where Ramboux remained until 1812. In 1815, he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, becoming a pupil of Konrad Eberhard. In 1816 he moved to Rome, where he lived until 1822. While there, he made the acquaintance of many fellow painters who were involved in the Nazarene movement. He returned to Trier for ten years, creating hundreds of watercolors of the city and the Moselle River, which he began reproducing as lithographs in 1825. This came to an end in 1827 when the lithography firm, owned by his former teacher, Hawich, went out of business. In 1832, he began another ten-year stay in Italy, producing landscapes and folk-scenes as well as copies of Renaissance frescoes and mosaics. • Illustration — Adam and Eve after the Expulsion from Paradise, (c. 1818)

In 1843, a curator was needed for the Wallraf Collection (now the Wallraf-Richartz Museum) in Cologne and Ramboux was recommended for the position by Johann Gottfried Schadow. He was appointed and took office in 1844. Ten years later, he was able to make a long-desired pilgrimage to Jerusalem, producing hundreds of watercolors and lithographs along the way. In 1858, he was made the first Honorary Citizen of Trier. He died in 1866 in Cologne. A street is named after him in the Longerich district of Cologne. Since 1961, the City of Trier has awarded the Ramboux Prize to promote the development of young artists.