Oscar Rex Explained

Oscar Rex
Birth Date:26 March 1857
Birth Place:Graz, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:Prague, Czechoslovakia
Movement:Genre art

Oscar Rex (sometimes spelled Oskar; 26 March 1857 – 8 February 1929) was an Austrian genre painter.

Early life

Born in Graz, Rex grew up in Prague.[1] From 1876 to 1877, he was a member of the Corps Austria. From about 1889, he was a member of the Corps Palaio-Austria[2] in Prague.

In January, 1878, Rex studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.[3] In 1881, he went to Paris to study as a student of Mihály Munkácsy, Gustave Boulanger, and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre.

In 1889, Rex participated in an exhibition of the Munich Artists' Association. He returned to Prague around 1890. In 1891, a drawing of him at the Annual Exhibition of Visual Artists of Vienna was displayed. One of Rex's works was awarded a bronze medal at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris. Shortly before the First World War, an exhibit of about 30 of his paintings depicting scenes from the life of Napoleon Bonaparte was displayed in 38 cities.

Family

Rex came from a medical family. His grandfather, Franz Rex (1795–1855), was a native of Brno and a practicing surgeon in Prague. Oscar Rex was the son of Ignaz Rex (born 1822), who served as the chief of staff at Arzt and conductor of the Prague garrison hospital; Oscar's mother was Emma Schulz (1832–1884). Oscar's brother, Hugo Rex, was a professor of medicine. Oscar Rex married Marie Eudes (born 1860); after her death, he married Thébauet Nora (born 1867).

Works (selection)

Paintings

Books

Literature

References

  1. Web site: Château de Malmaison Regard sur Oscar Rex 1857–1929 peintre de la légende napoléonienne . Caude . Elisabeth . Cariel . Rémi . 2021 . . . fr . Château de Malmaison A Look at Oscar Rex 1857–1929 Painter of the Napoleonic Legend . 3 June 2024.
  2. See Jürgen Herrlein, "Palaio-Austria. A forgotten Prague Corps". In Then and Now. Yearbook of the Association for corp student historical research, 2010, pp. 454–457.
  3. http://matrikel.adbk.de/05ordner/mb_1841-1884/jahr_1878/matrikel-03513 Entry in the register book of the Academy of Fine Arts