Carl Schuch was an Austrian still-life and landscape painter on the threshold of modernity whose work got known to the public only after his death.
Born: 30 September 1846 in Vienna
Died: 13 September 1903 in Vienna
Carl Schuch's life is marked by incongruity and wandering. Already at the age of 20, he begins a trip through Italy, which takes several years. During a stay in Munich, he becomes acquainted with the painter Wilhelm Trübner, who belongs to the circle around Wilhelm Leibl, who plays a very important role for the development of Schuch as a painter. In addition to Trübner, there are some fellow painter colleagues like the landscape painter Ludwig Halauska, by whom Schuch has himself trained in Vienna for some time, and the graphic artist Albert Lang and his future biographer, Karl Hagemeister, whose paths cross over again and again during numerous journeys, and who even becomes his travel companion for a longer time. Due to his ancestry from a well-off family, Carl Schuch is financially independent for the time of his life, and he is free to follow his artistic dispositions, which also lead him to Paris and give him the opportunity to get to know the works of Gustave Courbet, which influence the realistic style of his still-life paintings in a strong way.
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Oil Paintings