Carl Rotte
Carl Martin Heinrich Rotte (born December 31, 1862 in Lübeck , † April 4, 1910 in Hamburg ) was a German painter and illustrator.
Life
Rotte was the son of a carpenter. At the age of 17 he went to Munich and on October 27, 1879 entered the class of antiquities at the Academy of Fine Arts . He studied there with Gabriel von Hackl , Otto Seitz and Gyula Benczúr until 1884 . After successfully completing his degree, he initially returned to Lübeck. There he received the Emanuel Geibel grant in 1884. At the beginning of the nineties Rotte moved to Hamburg.
At this time, a number of large-format pictures such as B. also The three old people from the Holy Spirit Hospital . This picture was awarded a medal in Madrid. The love for Dutch painting, for interiors and portraits, determined the early phase of artistic creation. This phase was replaced by the preference for still life and landscape painting. Later pictures also reveal a certain influence of the French impressionists . His graphic skills found expression in numerous book and magazine illustrations. Many of his pictures were destroyed in Hamburg in 1943 as a result of the war. Rotte led the nude class at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts at Steintor. He was a board member of the Hamburger Kunstverein and a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .
In addition to his artistic activity, Rotte wrote articles for the Hamburg correspondent in the section From Hamburg's Art Halls . He also worked as an illustrator, for example for Anna Lindau's fairy tales . Carl Rotte died on April 4, 1910. In an obituary on the occasion of a large Carl Rotte memorial exhibition in the Hamburg Art Halls (May to June 1910), he was honored as Hamburg's most renowned still life painter at the time.
Works
Vase with autumn leaves and gray gloves
Village houses behind a cornfield
The longer, the better
- Summer morning in the Lüneburg Heath , Kunsthalle Hamburg, oil on panel, 32.5 × 22 cm
- Alte Diele , Kunsthalle Hamburg, oil on wood
- Reading girl , Kunsthalle Hamburg
- Flower piece I , still life, Museum Behnhaus Lübeck, oil on canvas
- Blumenstück II , Museum Behnhaus Lübeck, oil on canvas
- Pastor in a courtyard , Museum Behnhaus Lübeck
- White roses as a color photo of the painting in original size in the Deutsches Museum Munich, Department of Photography as an example of a multi-color photograph.
Fonts (selection)
- The fine arts . In: Hamburg at the turn of the century 1800 . State and University Library, Hamburg 1900, p. 175–214 ( digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de ).
literature
- Ernst Rump: Rotte, Martin Heinrich Carl . In: Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . O. Bröcker, Hamburg 1912, p. 112 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Rotte, Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 96 .
- M. Bruhns, K.Rump (Hrsg.): The new Rump: Lexicon of the fine artists Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Wachholtz-Verlag, Hamburg 2005.
- Momme Nissen: Carl Rotte. Commemorative publication, Hamburg May 1910.
- Gustav Zeller: Carl Rotte. Hamburg Correspondent No. 334, July 5, 1910.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 03748 Karl Rotte . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 2: 1841-1884 . Munich 1884 ( matrikel.adbk.de , daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
- ^ Anna Lindau: fairy tales . Illustrations by Woldemar Friedrich, Arthur Langhammer, Fanny Römer, Carl Rotte, Friedrich Wittig, Alexander Zick. Grote, Berlin 1885, OCLC 249545915 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rotte, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rotte, Carl Martin Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter of the Munich School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 1910 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |