The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Raupp, Karl

RAUPP, rowp, Karl, German painter: b. Darmstadt, 1837. He began as a landscape painter, and between 1856 and 1858 studied genre under J. Becker at Frankfort, and under Karl Piloty at Munich Academy from 1860 to 1865. Subsequently he opened a studio, taking private pupils in painting, and in 1868 his reputation as a teacher gained for him the position of professor in the art school at Nuremberg, which he held up to 1879, when he was appointed professor in the academy at Munich. Among his works may be mentioned ‘A Boating Party on the Chiem See’; ‘Home Before a Storm’; ‘A Calm’; ‘Ave Maria’; ‘Sport and Work’; ‘Starting Home from the Monastery School.’