Carl Rahl

He remained in Italy from 1836 to 1843, where he in particular studied representatives of the Venetian and Roman schools of art, and painted die Auffindung von Manfreds Leiche (1836).

He then opened a private art school, which expanded quickly into a studio that produced monumental-scale paintings and enjoyed considerable success.

Among his notable pupils were Eduard Bitterlich, August Eisenmenger, Joseph Matthäus Aigner, Károly Lotz, Christian Griepenkerl, Gustav Gaul, and Mór Than.

Rahl decorated the Heinrichshof in 1861 with personifications of Art, Friendship, and Culture, and the Palais Todesco with representations from the mythology of Paris.

In this period he also painted several frescoes: Mädchen aus der Fremde (in a villa of Gmunden), a composition for a ballroom of Schloss Oldenburg, and a cycle from the tale of the Argonauts.