Karl Russ
Documented Styrian folk costumes in watercolors
Karl Russ is an Austrian painter. Karl Russ studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and painted mainly scenes from mythology, antiquity and depictions of Austrian history. In 1806 he worked inside the Albertina . In 1810, he was court painter to Jean-Baptiste d'Autriche and accompanied him on walks through Styria to explore the country and find patterns for the paintings he requested. He captured the clothes of the ordinary people of the country with their Styrian costumes in a series of watercolors. These paintings constitute important documents on traditional clothing between 1810 and 1820, from the festive dresses of bourgeois women to the dresses of a peasant boy. Karl Russ is the father of painter Leander Russ.
Artworks by this artist
- Selbstbildnis in ganzer Figur 1810
- Hecabe with the corpses of her children Polyxena and Polydoros at the tomb of Achilles 1809
- King Albert II and His Wife Elizabeth of Luxembourg in Prayer, on the Altar the Crowns of Bohemia and Hungary, as well as the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire 1820
- Die Tannhäuser-Legende 1825
- Kaiser Maximilian besucht die Handwerker 1822
- Young Man Inspired by Genius 1810
- Selbstbildnis 1813