!!!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.).

!Literature
A. George-Mayer, Erinnerungen an C. R., 1882; W. 
Kitlitschka, Die Malerei der Wr. Ringstrasse, 1981; OeBL.


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