Name Christopher Rave | Died January 13, 1933 | |
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Christopher Rave (20 February 1881 – 13 January 1933) was a German painting artist, explorer of polar regions and professor.
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Life
Rave was a popular painter of naval art living in Hamburg. Between 1900 and 1909 he created about 300 paintings about 8,000 years of navigation. 1911 they were exhibited in Hamburg and sold in particular. The paintings were reproduces as postcards by at two publishers, one from Hamburg, the other one from the Netherlands.
In 1910 he experiences the accident of German tall ship Preusen as a passenger, running aground close to Dover.
In 1912 he was member of German exploration voyage to Spitsbergen. His task was the documentation by photographs and paintings. The voyage under the command of Herbert Schroder-Stranz and Alfred Ritscher as Captain of the ship Herzog Ernst failed, and just 7 out of 15 crew survived. In 1913 Rave published his experiences Tagebuch von der verungluckten Expedition Schroder-Stranz: mit Federzeichnungen vom Verfasser (Diary of the failed expedition of Schroder-Stranz).
Having cancer of the throat and hardly able to talk Rave shot himself on January 13, 1933. His tomb, designed by his student Valentin Kraus from Munich, is situated on Hamburg Ohlsdorf graveyard.