Rudolf Ribarz (30 May 1848,

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- 12 November 1904, Vienna) was an Austrian landscape painter.

Life and work

His father was a successful merchant; a profession he initially trained for, until he discovered his interest in painting. At first, he secretly took lessons from the landscape painter, then, around 1864, enrolled at the

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, where he studied with

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. In 1868, he visited an exhibition in Munich, and was especially impressed by the French art. From 1870 to 1872, he travelled to the

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and

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. This was followed, in 1875, by a study visit to

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. In 1876, he finally found the means to make an extended stay in Paris, where he came into contact with the works of the Barbizon School. Thanks to the art dealer,

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, who was originally from Vienna, he was able to meet

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, one of the group's last surviving members. More study trips followed, to

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and

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in the Netherlands, and to

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. He also participated in numerous exhibitions, including the

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in Chicago. It was 1892 before he returned to Vienna and, despite his long absence, was soon offered an appointment as manager of the flower painting department at the Arts and Crafts School (now the University of Applied Arts). There, he cultivated a simple, intimate style of landscape painting; inspired by his time in France. During the 1890s, he experimented with

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. In 1899. he was forced to retire, due to a worsening "nervous condition". He died in 1904 at a psychiatric asylum, and was interred at

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. A street in Vienna's

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district was named after him in 1936.

Selected paintings

File:Rudolf Ribarz - Pont de Moutiers in Thiers - 5286 - Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.jpg, The Pont de Moutiers in Thiers File:Rudolf Ribarz - Dünen bei Treport - 2155 - Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.jpg, The Dunes near

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File:Rudolf Ribarz Hütte an der Donau bei Hainburg.jpg, Cottage in

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Sources

* * * Martina Haja (Ed.): ''Rudolf Ribarz. Ein Maler des österreichischen Stimmungsimpressionismus'' (exhibition catalog)

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, Vienna, 1978

External links

More works by Ribarz
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