Carl Schuch

Carl Eduard Schuch (30 September, 1846 - 13 September, 1903) was an Austrian painter, born in Vienna, who spent most of his lifetime outside Austria, in Germany, Italy and France. He painted primarily still lifes and landscapes.

During the period 1882–94 he was based in Paris, where he was greatly impressed by the work of Claude Monet—whom he described as "the Rembrandt of "plein-air" painting"—although he was attracted most of all to Rembrandt and the artists of the Barbizon school. [Forster-Hahn et al., 2001, p. 164] In 1884 and 1885 he spent the summer months in the Netherlands, studying the Dutch old masters as well as the contemporary painters of the Hague School, and filling notebooks with detailed descriptions of the colors he observed in paintings that he admired. Of all the artists belonging to the circle around Wilhelm Leibl (called the "Leibl-Kreis"), Schuch was the most devoted to color. [Forster-Hahn et al., 2001, p. 164] His work marks the transition from the realist tradition to the modern movement in Vienna, esthetically, however, it is far from contemporary trends, and from its means and ends, comparable to Paul Cézanne (Gottfried Boehm, referring to Arnold Gehlen).

His later years were marked by a degenerative illness. He died in Vienna.

Infobox Painting|

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title=Still Life with Apples
artist=Carl Schuch
year=1875
type=Oil on canvas
height= 72.4
width= 92.1
museum= Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

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References

* Boehm, Gottfried; Dorn, Roland, and Morat, Franz A. (ed.): "Carl Schuch (1846-1903)", Kunsthalle Mannheim & Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, 1986 ISBN 3-89165-029-9
* Buberl, Brigitte (ed.): "Cézanne - Manet - Schuch: Drei Wege zur autonomen Kunst", Hirmer Verlag, München 2000 ISBN 377748640X
*Forster-Hahn, Françoise, et al. (2001). "Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth-Century Paintings From the Nationalgalerie, Berlin". London: National Gallery Company. ISBN 1-85709-981-8
* Hagemeister, Karl: "Carl Schuch, sein Leben und seine Werke", Bruno Cassirer, Berlin 1913
* Ruhmer, Eberhard: "Der Leibl-Kreis und die Reine Malerei", Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 1986 ISBN 3-475-52455-4
* Schönmetzler, Klaus J. (ed.): "Wilhelm Leibl und seine Malerfreunde", Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 2001 ISBN 3-475-52780-4