Daniel Fohr
Daniel Fohr (born May 13, 1801 in Heidelberg , † June 25, 1862 Baden-Baden ) was a German painter .
Life
Daniel Fohr was the younger brother of the painter Carl Philipp Fohr . As a student - he attended high school in Baden-Baden - he accompanied Carl Rottmann and his painter friends on their journey through the Rhine and Moselle . After graduating from high school , he is said to have started studying philology , but then decided to become a painter. By 1825 at the latest, he was one of Peter Cornelius' students in Munich .
From 1829 Daniel Fohr worked as a landscape painter in Munich. After being appointed court painter in Baden , he returned to his homeland in 1839. He first lived in Karlsruhe , but stayed in Munich again from 1846 to 1850. He then lived as a court painter from Baden in Baden-Baden.
Daniel Fohr did not have the great talent of his brother, whose style of drawing he was guided by at the beginning, just like that of his friend August Lucas . In Munich he worked in the style of Rottmann and the Munich Landscape School. In doing so, especially in the early days, he was able to find fresh, realistic oil studies. In contrast, some of his later, literarily determined fantasy landscapes have decidedly late romantic features.
Daniel Fohr was a passionate art collector. He was particularly fond of romantic drawings and, above all, the works of his brother.
literature
- Friedrich Pecht: Fohr, Carl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 147 f. (Side entry on his brother)
- Jens Christian Jensen: watercolors and drawings of the German romanticism . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1992, p. 162, ISBN 3-7701-0976-7 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fohr, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1801 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 1862 |
| Place of death | Baden-Baden |