Carl Schuch

Carl ( Charles) Eduard Schuch ( born September 30, 1846 in Vienna, † September 13, 1903 ibid ) was born in the Empire of Austria, from the self -understanding rather Europeans, stands as a painter at the transition to Viennese Modernism. His oeuvre is as erratic block transverse to contemporary trends and fashions, is in an historical review and from the aesthetic scope ago most comparable to Paul Cézanne ( Gottfried Boehm, referring to Arnold Gehlen ).

Life

Carl Schuch came from a wealthy family home; to enter the labor he had his life not necessary. But his life was marked by tragedy, since early youth overshadowed by illness and death. On the loss of parents (probably due to the tuberculosis) the death of the only sister Pauline followed († 1869): Her death drove the adolescents wandering through Europe, he only ceased when the venereal disease began to overwhelm him that his Viennese Doctors had diagnosed in November 1880. " Homecoming! When I return home again ask you, " Schuch wrote once his childhood friend Julius radish. "I do not want to live in Vienna, because I can not work there. In passing, I might get there - remain permanently there, I think that can me only occur when I destroyed myself and feel ill to die - then examined yes every bear his cave, every bird its nest, every dog ​​his hut - to curled up quiet and shy to die. "

Financially independent and restless wandering around, is Schuch Biography meantime, definitely not to be reconstructed. Although he seems to have taken a regular study at the Art Academy in Vienna on October 6, 1865, but this probably broke off soon to the estimated also by the Imperial Household landscape painter Ludwig Halauska to draw as a private student through the country. After the death of his sister Pauline Schuch went to Unterach "to add bring Halauska still summer tilt with studies -. Then I'll go away entirely in the long, very long time," beginning in December 1869 made ​​Schuch in Venice the acquaintance of the painting architecture students Albert Lang, with whom he toured in the next 12 months ( on the tracks Seumes and other ) Italy; the political turmoil of those days should have suggested an early departure, but at the same time also be delayed. From Sicily, Schuch and long reached via Naples and Rome, in the vicinity ( Campagna, Olevano ) they were stopped a long time, to Florence. There, their paths separated for a short time: Long went to Munich; Schuch via Venice to Vienna, but soon made itself back on to see again Lang in Munich, who introduced him to his brother Corp. Wilhelm Trübner. In the spring of 1871 took the trio 's home and studio in the near Bern Ried, Schuch soon embarked on a " Inspectionstour " on Lake Ammersee and brought from there by Wilhelm Leibl.

The contact with Wilhelm Leibl ' and his circle ' is generally regarded as the event that marked Carl Schuch future career, especially Wilhelm Trübner blew in an autobiographical note in the same tune. The rest is doing the Schuch - portraits of Rudolf Hirth du Frênes, Wilhelm Trübner and Leibl itself many a was and this is proof enough of a close-knit clique of pure painting. Doubt on this version are certainly more than appropriate, because Schuch's itinerary is and remains full of holes as any Emmentaler. Schuch was the beginning of his career in Paris, which is well documented - just when? What is certain is this: In March 1872 Schuch in Munich, then in Vienna and near Purkersdorf was. In the autumn he had arranged to meet with Trübner in Venice; via Florence traveled the two for the winter to Rome. While Trübner returned home, Schuch went in May 1873 shortly after Olevano Romano. Alarmed by Edmund Kanoldt that Serpentara of the German - Roman sacred oak grove should be cut down, Schuch took over a quarter of the cost of the purchase in favor of the German emperor and empire.

In the summer on Hintersee in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden Schuch then made ​​the acquaintance of Karl Hagemeister, his later biographers. Together they visited in the fall of Vienna and the local World's Fair, only to rush via Dresden to next winter to Brussels. Christmas 1873 spent Schuch and Hagemeister in Amsterdam; a second stay in Amsterdam - now with Trübner, the presented himself until after the New Year in Brussels - was followed in March 1874 then probably came another " Inspectionstour " Schuch and Trübner via resin, Rügen and the Bavarian Forest to Herrenchiemsee led. . In October, Trübner had einzufinden as a one-year volunteer in Karlsruhe and arranged with Schuch the winter 1875/1876 in Munich; Schuch did what in these twelve months, just seems so far clear, when he returned in the fall of 1875 apparently from Olevano (! ) and Trübner, then went again in the spring of 1876 after first Weßling to Bernried on Lake Starnberg.

Then Schuch wandering life had so far to an end when he took firm quarters for the winter months, from which he acted the rest of the year. From 1876 to 1882 Schuch was therefore established in Venice. The summer, however, he spent more time here and there: in 1877 at Braies in Val Pusteria, 1878 in Ferch on the Havel, 1879 Seddiner wandering between the Val di Fassa and Ljubljana, 1880 in Kähnsdorf the Great Lake, in 1881 again in Ferch. In the spring of 1882 Schuch disbanded his Venetian studio, spent the summer (as well as the following ) Hintersee. But it was clear that he would continue to spend the winter in Paris. From 1882 to 1894 he lived in Paris. During this time he worked extensively with the genre still life. He was influenced by the works of Gustave Courbet. It created a number of apple still life. Among other things, the adjacent figure from the Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover. Only after the opening and detailed study of the annual Salon he made since then on the summer campaign in 1884 and 1885 in Scheveningen, since in La Chaux -de-Fonds, near the Saut du Doubs. Seven summer she spent there with Carl Schuch, noted Louise Lami, his future wife; elsewhere called the period 1888-1893.

1893 brought a number of spa stays Schuch state. In 1894 he moved to Vienna in the spring, married there in the fall Louise Lami and declared his will. All other treatments did not help much. End of February 1897, he was first brought into the private sanatorium for Gemüthskranke of Dr. Wilhelm Svetlin, although discharged in June, but in 1898 was followed by the final briefing. There, Carl Schuch starved for several years. He died on September 13, 1903, almost 58 years old. The Totenbeschauprotokoll the City of Vienna stated cause of death as " paralytic idiocy ".

Performance

Carl Schuch is one of the leading Austrian painters of realism, has its factory in the modern world. He painted mainly still lifes, but in addition also landscapes and portraits. Default style, it combines features of the Viennese taste culture with Gustave Courbet and Wilhelm Leibl.

Works

• Landscape with Bridge Ruin Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover, Cat 107, 1870
• Horse and Mule ( Wuppertal, Von der Heydt - Museum, Inv. No. 0068), 1875, oil on canvas, 49.5 x 75 cm
• Self-Portrait (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv. No. 1360 ) to 1875-1876, oil on canvas, 56 x 46 cm
• Still life with apples, wine glass and pewter jug ​​(Munich, Neue Pinakothek, inv. No. 8563 ), 1876, oil on canvas, 69.2 x 92 cm
• Large Kitchen Still Life (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv. No. 1095 ), 1879, oil on canvas, 160 x 183 cm
• On Seddiner lake at Kähnsdorf ( Greifswald, Pomeranian State Museum ), probably in 1880, oil on canvas, 60.5 x 82 cm
• Still life with wild duck and game bag I ( Vienna, Belvedere, Inv. No. 5525 ), 1881, oil on canvas, 53.5 x 79 cm
• Still life with pumpkin, peach and grapes (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv. No. 1358 ), 1884, oil on canvas, 62 x 81 cm
• Roses, Keksteller and Orange, ( Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen), oil on canvas, 51 x 61 cm
• Still Life with Rhododendron ( Dresden, Gemäldegalerie )
• Inside the Forest at Saut du Doubs (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv. No. 1096 ), 1887, oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm
• Peonies (Munich, Neue Pinakothek, inv. No. 8599 ), 1890, oil on canvas, 63.3 x 56.1 cm