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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Oscar_Rex > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Oscar_Rex.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Rex > Source revision: 1253272949 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Austrian painter (1857–1929)}} {{use dmy|date=June 2024}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|Oscar Rex|date=November 2013}} {{Infobox artist | name = Oscar Rex | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1857|3|26|df=y}} | birth_place = [Graz](/source/Graz), [Austria-Hungary](/source/Austria-Hungary) | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1929|2|8|1857|3|26}} | death_place = [Prague](/source/Prague), [Czechoslovakia](/source/Czechoslovakia) | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | movement = [Genre art](/source/Genre_art) | education = | years_active = | field = | family = | notable_works = }} [[File:Oscr Rex - Bar Mitzwa.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Oscar Rex, ''[Bar Mitzvah](/source/Bar_Mitzvah)'']] '''Oscar Rex''' (sometimes spelled '''Oskar'''; 26 March 1857 – 8 February 1929) was an Austrian [genre](/source/genre_art) painter. == Early life == Born in Graz, Rex grew up in Prague.{{cite web |url=https://musees-nationaux-malmaison.fr/chateau-malmaison/sites/malmaison/files/documents/Expo%20Oscar%20Rex%20-%20Trame%20DP%20-%20V8.pdf |title=Château de Malmaison {{!}} Regard sur Oscar Rex {{!}} 1857–1929 {{!}} peintre de la légende napoléonienne |last=Caude |first=Elisabeth |last2=Cariel |first2=Rémi |date=2021 |website=[Château de Malmaison](/source/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Malmaison) |publisher=[French Ministry of Culture](/source/Ministry_of_Culture_(France)) |lang=fr |trans-title=Château de Malmaison {{!}} A Look at Oscar Rex {{!}} 1857–1929 {{!}} Painter of the Napoleonic Legend |access-date=3 June 2024}} From 1876 to 1877, he was a member of the [Corps Austria](/source/Corps_Austria). From about 1889, he was a member of the Corps Palaio-AustriaSee [Jürgen Herrlein](/source/J%C3%BCrgen_Herrlein), "Palaio-Austria. A forgotten Prague Corps". In ''Then and Now. Yearbook of the Association for corp student historical research'', 2010, pp. 454–457. in [Prague](/source/Prague). In January, 1878, Rex studied at the [Munich Academy of Fine Arts](/source/Munich_Academy_of_Fine_Arts).[http://matrikel.adbk.de/05ordner/mb_1841-1884/jahr_1878/matrikel-03513 Entry in the register book of the Academy of Fine Arts] In 1881, he went to Paris to study as a student of [Mihály Munkácsy](/source/Mih%C3%A1ly_Munk%C3%A1csy), [Gustave Boulanger](/source/Gustave_Boulanger), and [Jules-Joseph Lefebvre](/source/Jules-Joseph_Lefebvre).{{r|mal}} In 1889, Rex participated in an exhibition of the Munich Artists' Association.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}} He returned to Prague around 1890. In 1891, a drawing of him at the Annual Exhibition of Visual Artists of Vienna was displayed.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}} One of Rex's works was awarded a bronze medal at the [1900 World Exhibition](/source/Exposition_Universelle_(1900)) 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](/source/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).{{citation needed|date=April 2014}} == Works (selection) == {{Commons category}} === Paintings === * ''Im Park von Malmaison''{{google books||id=CTJpTerSL4OAOo2Z9a0L|p=350}} * ''C'est fini'' (representation of Napoleon on the beach of Saint Helena) === Books === * [http://kramerius.nkp.cz/kramerius/MShowPageDoc.do?id=4633654&mcp=&idpi=24156493&author= Digitalisat ''Praha je Praha''] [= Prag ist Prag], Prag: Karel Bellmann o.J. (= Buch mit 30 Phototypien nach Tuschezeichnungen von Rex. Dargestellt sind Szenen aus dem Alltagsleben in Prag) * K. and K., Prague: Bellmann 1893 (. = folder with 40 mounted Phototypien after paintings by Oscar Rex Shown are scenes from the Austrian military service) * Illustrations about: Ernst Wenke: History of the Habsburg 1 Bohemian Dragoon Regiment Kaiser Franz, Prague: Publishing of the Regiment, 1896 == Literature == * Hermann Alexander Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer (ed.): [https://archive.org/stream/allgemeineskns04ml#page/48/mode/2up/search/rex ''Digitized artists of the world'']. Volume 4 Rüttenenstrasse & Loening, Frankfurt am Main, 1922, p 49 * [Thieme-Becker](/source/Thieme-Becker): ''General Encyclopedia of Artists'', volume 28, Leipzig, 1934, p 14 == References == {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rex, Oscar}} Category:1857 births Category:1929 deaths Category:Austrian genre painters Category:19th-century Austrian painters Category:19th-century Austrian male artists Category:Austrian male painters Category:20th-century Austrian painters Category:20th-century Austrian male artists Category:Artists from Graz Category:Painters from Prague Category:Painters from Austria-Hungary --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Oscar Rex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Rex) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Rex?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.