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Palermo, Montereau, Dieppe, Havre (1836); Châlon-sur-Saône, Harbour of St. Malo (1837); Farm-Yard in Burgundy (1838); Grand Canal and S. M. della Salute in Venice (1840); Thun (1841); Entry of Emperor Henry IV. into Venice (1843), Grenoble Museum; Square and Fountain of Tophane in Constantinople (1846); Mosque at Scutari; Wall paintings in Notre Dame at Chardonnay.—Bellier, ii. 336; Larousse.
RAHL, KARL, born in Vienna, Aug. 13,
1812, died there, July
9, 1865. History and
portrait painter, son of
the engraver Karl
Heinrich Rahl, pupil
of Vienna Academy;
won the first prize in
1832, visited Germany,
Hungary, and France,
then studied in Rome
(1836-43) after the antique; returned to
Vienna, and in 1845 went to Holstein, and
in 1847 to Copenhagen, where he painted
several members of the Danish court. After
living a few years in Munich, he was called
in 1850 to Vienna as temporary professor at
the Academy, but resigned after one term
and opened a school of painting, where he
instructed eighty pupils, among whom were
Bitterlich, Eisenmenger, Griepenkerl, Lotz,
and Than. For years disregarded and slighted—his
grand compositions for the decoration
of the Vienna Arsenal having also been
refused—he at last obtained deserved prominence
through the patronage of Baron Sina,
executed a number of monumental exterior
and interior decorations in palaces and
public buildings of Vienna, and in 1863
was nominated professor at the Academy.
Works, Altarpieces: Madonna (1829); Baptism
of Christ (1830); Marriage of the Virgin,
St. Joseph of Calasanz (1841), Piaristenkirche,
Vienna; Assumption (1848);
Trinity, St. Catharine, St. Simon, St. Georg,
Madonna, Greek Church, Vienna. Mythology
and Allegory: Prometheus rejecting
Pandora (1834), Development of the Sciences
in Greece (1860), Jason taking the
Golden Fleece, Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1861),
Rape of Helen (1863), Baron Sina, Vienna;
Arion singing to the Nereids (1848); Orestes
pursued by the Furies (1852); Hercules
serving Omphale (1860); Four Elements
(1861); Four Cardinal Virtues of Austria's
Regents, Vienna Academy; Boreas eloping
with Eireithyia, Munich Art Union; Arts
of Peace (12, 1861), Heinrichshof, Vienna.
History: David hiding in Cave of Adullam
(1832); Confederation on the Rütli in 1307;
Hagen declared Siegfried's Murderer (1835),
Charles of Anjou finding Manfred's Body
(1838), Vienna Museum; Hagen and Volker
before Chriemhilde's Door (1836); Persecution
of Christians in Rome (1844), Kunsthalle,
Hamburg; replica (1847), National
Gallery, Berlin; Bishop Kolonitsch bringing
Christian Prisoners from Turkish Camp
(1853); Samson and Delilah (1854); Manfred's
Entry into Luceria in 1254; Moses
protecting Reuel's Daughters; Leopold the
Virtuous on the Walls of Ptolemais. Genre
and Landscape: Woman saving her Child
from Lion (1834); Rugantino, Old Catalonian,
Old Roman (1838); Woman from Procida
(1839); View near Terracina (1840);
Neapolitan Marinaro singing to his Sweetheart
(1841); Fortune-Teller (1841), Liechtenstein
Gallery, Vienna; Rural Scene near
Rome, Girl at the Well (1842); Lute-Player
(1850); Italian Woman with Tambourine
(1853); do. at the Well (1856). Portraits:
The Painters Wächter (1834), Riepenhausen
(1846), Cornelius, Genelli, Heinrich
Hess, Kaulbach (1848), Aigner (1851), Kovács,
Ricard (1854), Willers (1857), the
sculptors Brandenburger (1836), Martin
Wagner (1838), Hähnel (1850), and Pilz,
the architects Ernst and Hansen (1854),
the poets Robert Prutz (1848), Ludwig A.
Frankl (1855), the philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach
(1848), all at the Deutches Hochstift,
Frankfort; Martin Wagner, New Pinakothek,
Munich; Ernst Willers, Old Man,
Two Female Heads, Schack Gallery, ib.;
the poets Kerner (1833), Schwab, Lenau,