In 1869, after studying at the Frankfurt Städel Institute and the Munich Academy, Karl Raupp traveled to Chiemsee for the first time and visited its Fraueninsel. The discovery of this region, the landscape and the people inspired the artist and had a lasting influence on his oeuvre. In his work, the "Chiemsee-Raupp", as he is also known, skillfully combined the precise study of nature with the often idyllic genre image of the Gründerzeit. In addition to his work as a professor in the nature class at the Munich Academy since 1880, and the foundation of the painters' colony on the Fraueninsel, he also was co-editor of the 1918 Frauenchiemsee artist chronicle. With his students, he devoted himself to plein-air painting in order to capture the landscape in all its facets, often with a special preference for interesting, dramatic weather and changing light moods. A number of his paintings are in the collection of the Neue Pinakothek, Munich, including "Aufziehendes Gewitter am Chiemsee", from around 1885. The special freshness of a quick study created outdoors characterizes our unusual vertical format. The freshness and humidity after a summer rain over the lake, with the Fraueninsel emerging in front of the hazy mountains from the reflective blue surface, can be wonderfully felt in this atmospheric painting. [KT]