Rahl, Carl Heinrich#

Rahl, Carl (Heinrich), b. Vienna, Aug. 13, 1812, d. Vienna, July 9, 1865, painter of historical scenes. Received his first instruction from his father, the painter and copperplate engraver Carl Heinrich R. the Elder, studied at the Vienna Academy, in Munich and Stuttgart, travelled to Paris and England, long stay in Rome until 1846, worked with allegorical, mythological and historical motifs. 1850/51 and from 1863 taught at the Vienna Academy, 1851 founded a private school for monumental painting from which several famous painters emerged; numerous public commissions, frescoes and ceiling paintings, e.g. in the Greek church in Vienna, in the imperial arms museum (Arsenal), in Todesco Palace, in the Vienna Opera and in the Heinrichhof in Vienna, represented a direction with classicist tendencies, rich in colour and movement, that was continued by many of his students (C. Griepenkerl, E. Bitterlich, A. Eisenmenger, K. Lotz, etc.).

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