Carl Gustav Rodde

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Carl Gustav Rodde , also Karl Gustav Rodde (born August 29, 1830 in Danzig ; † March 1, 1906 in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin ), was a German vedute and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Rodde began his artistic career by studying at the Danzig Art and Trade School with Johann Karl Schultz . In 1852 Rodde moved to the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he deepened landscape painting until 1857. There he was a student of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer from 1852 to 1854 , and his successor Hans Fredrik Gude taught him from 1855 to 1857 . From 1856 to 1858 he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . After training in Düsseldorf , he spent a time in Munich in 1857 . From 1858 to 1861 he then went on a trip to Italy , where he married an Italian in 1860. Later he worked - interrupted by several trips to his wife's home country - in Weimar , Danzig, Düsseldorf and Berlin.

Works (selection)

Landscape with overcast sun
Italian village by the lake , 1892

At first Rodde painted German motifs, later mainly Italian landscapes.

  • Gothic town hall and front part of the Long Market in Gdansk , 1852
  • Westphalian landscape , 1855
  • Landscape with Castle and Village , 1856
  • River landscape at sunset , 1857
  • Landscape with overcast sun
  • The Wartburg
  • German heather
  • Silence in the valley (view of the valley gorge near Fachingen an der Lahn) , 1878
  • St. Peter's Basilica as seen from Villa Doria Pamphili
  • The Nemisee , 1883
  • Evening mood by the lake , 1886

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Gustav Rodde  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 144 f.
  2. Inventory of the Malkasten Artists' Association , accessed on April 8, 2015.
  3. ^ Carl Gustav Rodde, Landscape with a cloudy sun , documentation of the painting restoration in the portal brakebusch-restaurierung.de , accessed on April 8, 2015.