Karl Raupp (1837 - 1918)

Karl Raupp

Karl Raupp was a German painter of the last third of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known as a painter and graphic artist.

Karl Raupp worked primarily in landscape and genre painting. He often depicted the fishermen of Lake Kimsee and the peasants of Upper Bavaria. His work is characterized by his ability to subtly convey color and the play of light.

Raupp founded an artists' colony on the island of Fraueninsel on Lake Kimsee and also wrote a painting textbook.