Karl Rabus

Karl Wilhelm Rabus, russified as Karl Ivanovich Rabus (Russian: Карл Ива́нович Ра́бус; 11 May 1800, St. Petersburg - 14 January 1857, Moscow) was a Russian architectural painter and art teacher.

His father died when Karl was seven. At the age of only ten, he was sent to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts; remaining there until 1821, when he received a small gold medal and a second-degree certificate.^[2]

Crimea became one of his favorite places to paint. There, he created the works necessary for him to obtain the title of "Academician" by painting landmarks in a manner that would later become known as en plein aire. He was awarded the title in 1827 for his canvas depicting a villa in Gurzuf, built by the Duc de Richelieu. He also received praise for his view of Balaklava. From Crimea, he went to Odessa, then spent some time in Istanbul.^[3]

In 1835, he moved to Moscow and became a teacher of perspective, at the Palace School of Architecture  [ru]. Later, he taught the same subject at the Konstantinov Land Survey Institute  [ru]. He also taught a few classes in the theory of colors and art history. Sometimes, he would offer financial support to his most promising students.

A painting of the village church in Ismailovo  [ru] was presented at court; obtaining him the title of Court Painter. In his later years, he tried his hand at writing; producing "A Guide to Perspective" and beginning a history of art. He also provided commentary on art for several magazines and newspapers.^[3] During those years, he taught landscape painting at the Stroganov School and the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.^[2]

Toward the end of his life, he suffered from a type of color blindness (possibly due to glaucoma), that left him unable to distinguish orange and yellow shades.^{[citation needed ]} He died after an unspecified long and serious illness.

• View of Moscow in the Times of Peter the Great
  View of Moscow in the Times of
  Peter the Great
• Spasskaya Tower, Kremlin
  Spasskaya Tower, Kremlin
• Transfiguration Church at the Alexeyevsky Monastery [ru]
  Transfiguration Church at the
  Alexeyevsky Monastery  [ru]
• The Terem of Tsar Alexis
  The Terem of Tsar Alexis

• Ramazanov, Nikolai A. (2014). Belyaev, Nikolai S. (ed.). Материалы для истории художеств в России (PDF) (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ISBN 978-5-336-00162-4. OCLC 952577337.
• Gorelov, Mikhail I. (1958). "Карл Иванович Рабус". In Leonov, Alexei I. (ed.). Русское искусство: очерки о жизни и творчестве художников. Середина девятнадцатого века (in Russian). Moscow: Iskusstvo. pp. 399–410. OCLC 174704011.
• Somov, Andrei I. [in Russian] (1899). "Рабус (Карл Иванович)". Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). Vol. XXVI. St. Petersburg: Brockhaus and Efron. pp. 51–52.
• Stepanova, Svetlana S. [in Russian] (2005). Московское училище живописи и ваяния: Годы становления (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Iskusstvo-SPB. ISBN 5-210-01588-2. OCLC 60540421.

• Karl Rabus at the Russian Academy of Arts' official website

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• 1800 births
• 1857 deaths
• Landscape painters from the Russian Empire
• Court painters
• Cityscape artists
• Imperial Academy of Arts alumni
• Artists from Saint Petersburg
• Academic staff of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
• Academic staff of Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry
• Burials at Vvedenskoye Cemetery

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