Oscar Rex
Oscar Rex (sometimes spelled Oskar; 26 March 1857 – 8 February 1929) was an Austrian genre painter.
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Oscar Rex
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- Name
- Oscar Rex
- Born
- 26 March 1857
- Birthplace
- Graz, Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 8 February 1929
- Place of death
- Prague, Czechoslovakia
- Movement
- Genre art
- Nationality
- Austria
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- genre
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts and Munich
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Oscar Rex (sometimes spelled Oskar; 26 March 1857 – 8 February 1929) was an Austrian genre painter.
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Oscar Rex (1857–1929) was a painter, of Austrian nationality. The painter was born in Graz and died in Prague.
Oscar Rex was educated at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. The painter worked in Prague. The work spans genre.
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Key facts
• Name — Oscar Rex • Born — 26 March 1857 • Birthplace — Graz, Austria-Hungary • Died — 8 February 1929 • Place of death — Prague, Czechoslovakia • Movement — Genre art • Illustration — Oscar Rex, Bar Mitzvah
Early life
Early life
Born in Graz, Rex grew up in Prague. From 1876 to 1877, he was a member of the Corps Austria. From about 1889, he was a member of the Corps Palaio-Austria in Prague. In January, 1878, Rex studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. In 1881, he went to Paris to study as a student of Mihály Munkácsy, Gustave Boulanger, and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. In 1889, Rex participated in an exhibition of the Munich Artists' Association. He returned to Prague around 1890. In 1891, a drawing of him at the Annual Exhibition of Visual Artists of Vienna was displayed. One of Rex's works was awarded a bronze medal at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris. Shortly before the First World War, an exhibit of about 30 of his paintings depicting scenes from the life of Napoleon Bonaparte was displayed in 38 cities.
Family
Family
Rex came from a medical family. His grandfather, Franz Rex (1795–1855), was a native of Brno and a practicing surgeon in Prague. Oscar Rex was the son of Ignaz Rex (born 1822), who served as the chief of staff at Arzt and conductor of the Prague garrison hospital; Oscar's mother was Emma Schulz (1832–1884). Oscar's brother, Hugo Rex, was a professor of medicine. Oscar Rex married Marie Eudes (born 1860); after her death, he married Thébauet Nora (born 1867).
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Life and career
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1857
Oscar Rex born at Graz.
1929
Oscar Rex died at Prague.
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Graz.
Birth place
Prague.
Death place
Books
• Digitalisat Praha je Praha [= Prag ist Prag], Prag: Karel Bellmann o.J. (= Buch mit 30 Phototypien nach Tuschezeichnungen von Rex. Dargestellt sind Szenen aus dem Alltagsleben in Prag) • K. and K., Prague: Bellmann 1893 (. = folder with 40 mounted Phototypien after paintings by Oscar Rex Shown are scenes from the Austrian military service) • Illustrations about: Ernst Wenke: History of the Habsburg 1 Bohemian Dragoon Regiment Kaiser Franz, Prague: Publishing of the Regiment, 1896
Paintings
• Im Park von Malmaison • C'est fini (representation of Napoleon on the beach of Saint Helena)
Literature
Literature
• Hermann Alexander Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer (ed.): Digitized artists of the world. Volume 4 Rüttenenstrasse & Loening, Frankfurt am Main, 1922, p 49 • Thieme-Becker: General Encyclopedia of Artists, volume 28, Leipzig, 1934, p 14
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Literature
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- 1.Caude, Elisabeth. Château de Malmaison Regard sur Oscar Rex 1857–1929 peintre de la légende napoléonienne. Château de Malmaison. French Ministry of Culture. 2021.
- 2.See Jürgen Herrlein, "Palaio-Austria. A forgotten Prague Corps". In Then and Now. Yearbook of the Association for corp student historical research, 2010, pp. 454–457.
- 3.Entry in the register book of the Academy of Fine Arts
- 4.350.
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