Eduard Lotz

Eduard Hermann Lotz (* 1818 in Düsseldorf ; † 1890 ibid) was a German genre and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

A good drop (the beer connoisseur)

Lotz attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1832 . Until 1839 Josef Wintergerst , Karl Friedrich Schäffer the Younger , Karl Ferdinand Sohn and, above all, Theodor Hildebrandt were his teachers there. In Düsseldorf, where he lived after his studies, he was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . In addition to being a painter, Lotz worked as a restorer of paintings and as a teacher at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. The landscape painter Eduard Josef Müller was one of his students there.

Works (selection)

• A bride adorned by her girlfriends (Leipzig Art Exhibition 1841)
• The surprise in the bath and the young girl praying (Antwerp Art Exhibition 1849)
• Children in front of a picture of saints (exhibition at the Dresden Art Academy 1861)
• Two begging musicians with violin and cello in front of the door of a farmhouse (drawing dated 1854, Lepke's Berlin art auction 1890)

literature

• Lotz, Eduard. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 897 ( archive.org ).
• Lotz, Eduard Hermann . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 3 : Lhérie – Quittry . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 47 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Lotz, Eduard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 413 .

Web links

• Eduard Hermann Lotz , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
• Eduard Hermann Lotz , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nos. 8802–8811 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
2. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on June 29, 2017
3. ↑ Müller, Eduard Josef Müller . In: Ernst Holzinger, Hans-Joachim Ziemke (ed.): The paintings of the 19th century . Text tape. Schulte-Bulmke, Frankfurt aM 1972, p. 239 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
4. ↑ Lotz, Eduard. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 897 ( archive.org ).