Robert Raudner - Town and Garden with Sunflowers by a Pond 1894

Robert Hermann Raudner (1854–1915) was a German

landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...

and

genre painter Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity can be attached ...

, and

etcher Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types ...

. Raudner was born 21 January 1854 at Nimkau in

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,"1891 - Wood engraving with a view of Ottobeuren by Hermann Raudner"
''Ottobeuren Macht Heschichte'' (''Ottobeuren Makes History''), Ottobeuren-macht-geschichte.de. Retrieved 5 January 2020 the son to a

telegraphist A telegraphist (British English), telegrapher (American English), or telegraph operator is an operator who uses a telegraph key to send and receive the Morse code in order to communicate by land lines or radio. During the Great War the Royal ...

. He studied painting from October 1878 in the antique class—drawing after the antique—of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

;"03608 Robert Raudner"
Matrikelbücher, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München. Retrieved 5 January 2020 at his matriculation Raudner gave Benau near Sorau as his birthplace. His fellow Academy students were Gyula Benczúr, Alexander Strähuber, Johann Leonhard Raab and

Ludwig von Löfftz Ludwig von Löfftz (21 June 1845 – 3 December 1910) was a German genre and landscape painter. Biography He was born at Darmstadt. He was a pupil of August von Kreling and Karl Raupp at Nuremberg, then of Wilhelm von Diez at the Academy of F ...

. After study Raudner worked in the Munich municipality of

Schleißheim Schleißheim is a municipality in the district Wels-Land in the Austrian state of Upper Austria Upper Austria (german: Oberösterreich ; bar, Obaöstareich) is one of the nine states or of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria border ...

, mainly on landscape painting and etching. He exhibited works in the Munich Glass Palace in 1897 and 1899. Raudner died aged 60 on 14 January 1915 at Munich. A street at Schleißheim is named after him.

Bibliography

Thieme, Ulrich; Becker, Felix; "Raudner, Robert" in ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Hans Vollmer (ed.), Ramsden–Rosa. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig (1934), Volume 28, p. 41 (in German).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Raudner, Robert Painters from Munich 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters 1854 births 1915 deaths