Karl Philipp Fohr

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Fohr at the age of 22 (portrait of Carl Barth ), Kurpf. Heidelberg Museum
Fohr: The Luisenplatz in Darmstadt at the time of the war of liberation , painted in 1814; the Alexanderpalais still in its original state

Carl Philipp Fohr (born November 26, 1795 in Heidelberg , † June 29, 1818 in Rome ) was an important landscape painter of German Romanticism .

Life

Fohr began studying painting after training with Friedrich Rottmann largely as an autodidact . The Darmstadt councilor and painter Georg Wilhelm Issel discovered him in 1810 and invited him to Darmstadt in 1811. There he met the chamber secretary and historian Johann Philipp Dieffenbach , who introduced him to Hereditary Princess Wilhelmine Luise von Baden , from whom he received financial support and received small orders.

He later studied at the Academy in Munich , where he was friends with the art student Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl and learned to paint in oil from him . However, he broke off his studies at the Munich Academy prematurely to travel on foot to Northern Italy and later to Rome . There he briefly joined the circle of the Nazarenes around Peter von Cornelius , Philipp Veit and Friedrich Overbeck , but increasingly developed his own style. He shared a studio in Rome with the Tyrolean landscape painter Joseph Anton Koch , whose work influenced his style .

One of his most important works is the design of a group picture of the German artists in Rome, in the Café Greco . In 1816 he went to Heidelberg , where he joined the Teutonia fraternity around Karl Follen . On June 29, 1818 Fohr drowned while bathing in the Tiber .

His younger brother Daniel Fohr was also a landscape painter, at times he held the position of court painter in Baden. Karl Philipp and Daniel Fohr are great-grand-uncles of the painter Christian Schad .

Romantic landscape in Italy

In literary terms his life was treated in the short story Fohr by Peter Härtling .

Works

The Tivoli waterfalls
  • View of the Neuburg Abbey near Heidelberg (1813)
  • Ehrenberg Castle on the Neckar (1813/1814)
  • Heidelberg Castle from the way to the Königsstuhl (1814)
  • Student assembly in the restaurant in Neuenheim (1814)
  • Heidelberg Castle from the east with three students (1815)
  • Self-portrait of Carl Philipp Fohr in a military lace-up skirt (1815/16)
  • Adolf August Ludwig Follen (1816)
  • The rose miracle of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia (1816/17)
  • Three designs by the German artists in Rome (1817/18)
Karl Philipp Fohr (1795–1818): The artists in the Antico Caffè Greco 1818, second draft of the no longer executed painting - on the left the landscape painters, in the middle Joseph Anton Koch , around him Ernst Zacharias Platner , Konrad Eberhard , Johann Martin von Rohden , Carl Barth , Friedrich Rückert and Kaspar Waldmann, right group the Nazarenes , in the middle Johann Friedrich Overbeck , around him Theodor Rehbenitz , Philipp Veit , Peter Cornelius and Fohr's dog Grimsel

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Philipp Fohr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 209-211.
  2. ↑ in detail with ill. Wilhelm Schlink : Vulnerable faces. Portraits of German artists in the 19th century. In: Freiburg University Gazette. Issue 132, 1996, pp. 131–151, freidok.uni-freiburg.de (PDF; 7.4 MB).