Max Rabes -Old Patriarch Reading the Koran to a Young Man-Orientalist Oil Painting

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Max Rabes -Old Patriarch reading the Koran to a young man-Orientalist Oil painting

19th century oil painting on canvas -Signed … more Max Rabes -Old Patriarch reading the Koran to a young man-Orientalist Oil painting

19th century oil painting on canvas -Signed
circa 1890/1900s

Canvas size 17" H x 23" W
Frame: 24" H x 30" W x 3" D

Artist Biography
(1868 - 1944)
Max Friedrich Rabes was active/lived in Germany, Egypt. He is known for genre, street-landscape painting, stage set design, murals.
In 1885, Max Rabes traveled along the Mosel River to study the landscape. Matthias Engel of Traben-Trarbach/Mosel, Germany met him and was impressed with his talent. He invited him to his home and also seemed to have provided some financial support. As a gesture of appreciation, Max Rabes gave him a small water color that is in still in the family's possession.
Max Friedrich Rabes, actually Max Friedrich Ferdinand Rabe, is a German painter, illustrator and sculptor, Impressionist and Orientalist.
He was born in 1868 in Samter. In 1870 he spent his childhood in Stargard / Pomerania. In 1876, in Berlin, he was a student of Paul Graeb, and he had an apprenticeship as a decorative painter at Paul Borgmann in Berlin. Rabes undertook study tours to Egypt, Turkey, Spain and Scandinavia.
He was a member of the Association of Berlin Artists and the Munich Artists Association.
Although born in Germany, Max Friedrich Rabes spent very little time in his native country and instead spent his career scouring the globe, exploring through Africa, Asia, and Europe. Studying under the tutelage of Paul Graeb, son of the celebrated architectural and decorative painter Karl Graeb, Rabes quickly formed a solid foundation of skills and techniques. In order to fund his love of travel and obsession with the Orient, Rabes painted stage sets for theaters, created murals and decorated dining rooms for Italian bourgeoisie.
Each voyage to the Orient involved a prolonged stay in Cairo. The scene depicted here was painted during one of Rabes' many trips to Egypt and captures the magic of the Orient that many artists and their patrons found so fascinating. Here, Rabes depicts the colorful and vibrant energy of a souk, or marketplace, in Egypt. One can see the lush background, crowds of people, and even donkeys lining the streets on a typical day at the market.Max Friedrich Rabes passed away in Vienna, Austria in 1944. less