Karl Raupp

Karl Raupp studied at Städelschule and Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Training under Jakob Becker and Karl von Piloty is recorded. Ludwig von Löfftz, Carl Seiler and Hans Hammer are recorded as having studied under Karl Raupp. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Kingdom of Bavaria. Employment is recorded with Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg and Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Work by Karl Raupp is recorded in the collections of Bavarian State Painting Collections, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Führermuseum and Alte Nationalgalerie.

• Name — Karl Raupp • Born — 2 March 1837 • Birthplace — Darmstadt, Germany • Died — 14 June 1918 • Place of death — Munich, Germany • Education — Akademie der Bildenden Künste München • Known for — Painting • Style — Landscape Genre • Illustration — The curious dachshund, a sunny spot in the woods

After studying genre painting under Jakob Becker at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt, he became a pupil and zealous follower of Piloty in Munich (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.

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; 3d ed. 1898).