1. Franz Roubaud was a Russian painter of French origin who created some of the largest and best known panoramic paintings.
12 Facts About Franz Roubaud
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Franz Roubaud created circular paintings, exposed on a cylindrical surface and viewed from the inside at a lookout point.
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Franz Roubaud's paintings were often believed to reproduce the original scene with high fidelity.
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Franz Roubaud was born on 15 June 1856 in Odessa to Honore Fortune Alexis Roubaud and his wife Magdeleine.
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In 1877 Franz Roubaud went to Munich and studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.
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Franz Roubaud then settled in Saint Petersburg, working in the Imperial Academy of Arts and painting huge panoramas of historical battles.
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Franz Roubaud became renowned thanks to the giant panoramic paintings he executed during his lifetime.
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Franz Roubaud's works were so large that they required specially built pavilions to exhibit them.
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In 1913 Franz Roubaud left Russia for Germany, settling in Munich.
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Franz Roubaud lived in Munich for the rest of his life and died on 13 March 1928.
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Franz Roubaud worked on this painting for almost three years, starting in 1901.
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Franz Roubaud researched the historical events by traveling to Sevastopol, reading about the battle itself as well as by reading historical documents that described the different scenes and incidents during the war.