Doris Raab: life and works

Doris Raab (19 October 1851 – 1933) was a German etcher and engraver.

Raab was born on 19 October 1851 in Nuremberg. She was the daughter of the artist Johann Leonhard Raab who was moreover her teacher.

Doris Raab exhibited her perform at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. She along with exhibited her piece of legislation at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris.

Her engraving of Mary Queen of Scots receiving the news that her death warrant has been signed by her cousin Queen Elizabeth was published in December 1878 in “The Art Journal”. It was based on a painting by the Bavarian Karl von Piloty and the magazine was distributed in the UK and the USA.

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Raab died in 1933.

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