Emil Rau, Sommerabend am Dorfrand
Village with imposing church in mountainous landscape in the evening light ...

Emil Rau, Sommerabend am Dorfrand
Village with imposing church in mountainous landscape in the evening light, atmospheric, slightly impasto landscape painting in finely tuned colours, oil on cardboard, circa 1930, signed lower right "E. Rau", newspaper page circa 1955 pasted on reverse, restored, very beautifully framed in gold stucco frame, folding dimensions approx. 34.5 x 44.5 cm. Artist info: actually Carl (Karl) Emil Rau, German illustrator, portrait and genre painter (1858 Dresden to 1937 Munich), first to take over the family business of the Dresden "Lithographische Anstalt J. H. G. Rau und Sohn" and destined to become a lithographer, first artistic instructions by his father, the court lithographer Carl Emil Heinrich Rau, studied at the Dresden academy from 1875-79 under Leon Pohle and from 1878-79 under Ferdinand Wilhelm Pauwels, from 1879 at the Munich academy under Carl Theodor von Piloty, Wilhelm von Lindenschmit den Jüngeren and Alexander Wagner, from 1883 freelance in Munich, influenced by the Defregger circle, worked as an illustrator for the magazines "Jugendlust", "Gartenlaube" and "Fliegende Blätter", member of the Munich Artists' Association, the "Gesellige Vereinigung bildender Künstler Münchens" and the Reichsverband Bildender Künstler Deutschlands, worked in the Munich Glass Palace , source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Dressler, lists of pupils of the Dresden Academy, matriculation register of the Munich Academy, Bruckmann "Münchner Maler des 19./20th century", Bénézit, Müller-Singer, Info Cornelia Oelwein and Werner Merkl as well as Wikipedia.