RAMBERG, riim'birIc, ARTHUR. Baron (1819 75). A German genre painter and illus trator, born in Vienna. ,1011 of Georg Heinrich on Ramberg (1786-1835, a distingnished gen eral), and grand-nephew of Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763-1840, Court painter at Hanover, illustrator, and etcher, whose drawings. of which the Leipzig 3Insenin preserves an extensive col lection, were exceedingly popular in his day). Ramberg received his first training at the School of Art in Prague from Franz KRdlik and others, then studied in Dresden (1844) under Julius Hiihner, and passed through a subsequent formative stage the influence of Schwind, whose romantic trend is apparent in the "Wed ding Song" (after Goethe) and other works. 1-1 is great coloristic talent was, however, most suc cessfully displayed in some characteristic scenes from rural life, such as "Women of Dachau on Sunday" (1853), "Morning Devotion in the Mountains" (18,55, New Pinakothek), "Walk with the Tutor" (1856), in little humorous epi sodes like "Hide and Seek," "After the Masked Ball" (185S), and in the idyllic "Meeting on the Lake" (1879), and "Invitation to Boating" (1879), all breathing an atmosphere of ideal beauty. The same refined sentiment and a rare
delicacy of technique suggestive of the artist's thorough study of the Dutch masters, character ize the "Reading from Wieland" and the Con certino in Terborch's manner "After Dinner" (1873, New Pinakothek). In 1860 Ramberg was appointed professor at the School of Art in Weimar, where lie executed the historical paint ing "Court of Emperor Frederick IT. at Palermo" (1866, Naximilianeum, Idunich), collaborated with Pauwels in the decoration of the Luther. room at the Wartburg, and painted the "Fairy Tale of the Frog King" (Weimar Museum). It was, however, as an illustrator of the German classics that lie earned his greatest fame, notably with the drawings for Cotta's jubilee edition of Schiller's poems, those for the "Schiller and Goethe Galleries" (with Peeht), but above all with the cycles of grisailles to Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea and to Voss's Luise. In 1866. Ramberg became professor at the Munich Acad emy. Consult: Peat, Deutsche Kibisticr, etc., iv. (N6rdlingen, 1S85), and Rosenberg, Ge schidite der modernca Kunst, iii. (Leipzig, l8S0).