Rudolf Swoboda

Rudolf Swoboda the Younger ( born October 4, 1859 in Vienna, † January 26, 1914 ) was an Austrian painter of Orientalism.

Biography

Rudolf Swoboda was the son of the portrait painter Edward Swoboda and the nephew of the landscape and animal painter Rudolf Swoboda ( 1819-1859 ). He studied under Leopold Carl Müller, with whom he traveled to Egypt in 1880.

1886 appointed the British Queen Victoria Swoboda to paint Indian craftsmen, who had been brought in the course of preparations for the Golden Jubilee to Windsor. Victoria was so pleased that they Swoboda a trip to India funded, there to paint more and more Indians with the images. Swoboda there painted the normal Indian population, mostly in groups on small, not more than 8 inches high, paintings.

In India, he spent some time with John Lockwood Kipling and learned also his son Rudyard Kipling know. The young Kipling was unimpressed with Swoboda, to a friend, he wrote of two " crazy Austrians " who thought they were " all-powerful " artist "to come to all the enlightened East meet " with the target.

After his return from India he painted in 1888 and 1889, two portraits of Abdul Karim, the Munshi, Queen Victoria's preferred Indian servant. Most of the pictures of the trip to India hanging in Osborne House, Victoria's residence on the Isle of Wight.