Károly Lotz

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Károly Lotz (self-portrait)

Károly Lotz (born December 16, 1833 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , † October 13, 1904 in Budapest ; also Karl Anton Paul Lotz ) was a German - Hungarian history and genre painter .

Life

Karl Lotz was born as the youngest of seven children to Wilhelm Christian Lotz and Antonia Höfflick. His father was initially the valet of Prince Gustav zu Hessen-Homburg when he took part in the Austrian arms service at the Congress of Vienna , where, among other things, the sovereignty rights of the House of Hessen-Homburg vis-à-vis Hessen-Darmstadt were negotiated. Since the Homburg chargé d'affaires, the young Baron von Sinclair, suddenly died in Vienna, Wilhelm Christian Lotz had to step in at short notice. Wilhelm Christian Lotz met 13-year-old Antonie Hoefflich in Hungary in 1815, whom he married three years later. The marriage resulted in eight children, Karl being the youngest. The father died in 1837 and the mother moved to Pest , now Budapest , with the four-year-old Karl and his siblings . He attended the local Catholic Piarist high school . Although he belonged to the Calvinist religion, he received a scholarship there because of his above-average performance.

Lotz started his artistic career first as a student of the court conductor Destouches and later in the painting academy of the Venetian painter Jacopo Marastoni (1804-1860). He later studied with the Hungarian history painter Henrik Weber (1818–1866) in Budapest and with the history painter and colorist Carl Rahl (1812–1865) in Vienna .

Together with his teacher Carl Rahl, Lotz worked on numerous commissioned works. He later created his own works, initially as romantic landscape paintings based on scenes from the “ Alföld ”, the Hungarian lowlands, and later as monumental, decorative wall paintings and frescoes in the style of the Venetian master Giovanni Battista Tiepolo .

After various work in Budapest, he also worked in Vienna. He also designed some lordly palaces. Later he made murals for the abbey church on Lake Balaton on behalf of the abbot of Tihany Abbey . He was also known for his portraits and nudes, for which his wife and daughters, especially Katarina, were models. It was not until the age of 58 that Károly Lotz found his marital happiness. He married the widow Jacoboy.

In 1882 Lotz became a professor at various art academies in Budapest. In 1885 he became dean of the newly founded department “Painting for Women”. He became an honorary member of the Vienna Academy .

Karl Lotz died in Budapest in 1904. As the “prince among the Hungarian artists” he received a state funeral and was buried in a memorial. His pictures, drawings and designs were acquired by the State of Hungary and are housed in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts . Several Hungarian cities have named streets after Károly Lotz, there are stamps of the Hungarian Post with his image, and there is a bust in the National Museum in Budapest.

Works

Quotes

  • "... among more than 80 students always shine through their gifts, their enthusiasm for the true and their tireless activity" (Carl Rahn about his two students Karl Lotz and Moritz Than in a letter to the Budapest architect Feßl dated April 28, 1863 )
  • “Born in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, he became Hungarian through his stay with his mother's family, who was born in Hungary. All gifts are plentiful, only no luck, no material success is attributed to him; he remained almost hidden, despite his rare genius. ” ( August George-Mayer , a classmate of Carl Rahn, about his fellow student Karl Lotz 1883)

Honors

Hungary, 100 Forint 1992 banknote. On the reverse image detail by Karl Lotz
  • Hungary Special stamp on the subject of "Nude paintings" Issue August 27, 1974 "Bathing woman", 40 fillers
  • Hungary Special stamp on the subject of "Nude paintings" Issue August 27, 1974 "After the bath", 1.50 forints
  • 1884 One-sided cast bronze medal, 72 mm: Bearded portrait of Károly Lotz to the right. Medalist: Antal Loránfi (1856–1927).

literature

Web links

Commons : Károly Lotz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michel No. 2969.
  2. ↑ Michel No. 2972.
  3. ^ Lajos Huszár, Béla von Procopius: Medal and plaque art in Hungary . Budapest 1932, no.3399.
personal data
SURNAME Lotz, Károly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lotz, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Hungarian painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1904
Place of death Budapest