Karl Friedrich Roth

Friedrich Karl Roth (born August 3, 1890 in Würzburg , † November 18, 1960 in Munich ) was a German portrait painter , who from 1922 to 1937 some well-known people, such as Hindenburg, Pope Pius XI. and also portrayed Adolf Hitler .

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From 1912 Roth attended the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich . After two semesters, he moved on May 6, 1914, the Academy in the class of Angelo Jank . After being wounded in World War I , he returned in 1917 and continued his studies in 1918.

Around 1920 Roth was a member of Maximilian Dasio's group and quickly achieved fame as a portrait painter. Around 1922 he portrayed the Bavarian Crown Prince Rupprecht . From 1925 he was called to the Vatican and painted cardinals and finally Pope Pius XI. in a specially set up studio for conversations about alpine adventures in the Bavarian mountains. Back in Munich, Roth made portraits of Prime Minister Heinrich Held , the Apostolic Nuncio Vasallo di Torregrossa, and Cardinal Joseph Wendel . In 1928 he portrayed Paul von Hindenburg in six sessions in the Reich President's Palace.

Roth worked at the State School for Applied Arts Munich in Luisenstrasse from 1934 to 1939 , where he worked with a number of well-known colleagues, such as the designer and architect Richard Berndl and the set designer Emil Preetorius , whose then 21-year-old student Lilo Ramdohr he around 1934 / 35 also portrayed her and gave her some photos (self-image by Roth; and photo by Roth with Hindenburg; these photos are still in the possession of Lilo Fürst-Ramdohr).

Captured by Nazi propaganda, Roth also made a picture of Adolf Hitler in SA uniform, which was unveiled in May 1936 in the auditorium of the University of Würzburg by Rector Prof. Reinmöller under pathetic oaths of allegiance to the "Führer".

Roth lived and worked from July 9, 1933 to October 5, 1934 on the fourth floor of Ainmillerstrasse 25 in Schwabing . He then had his studio at Franz-Joseph-Straße 10 in Schwabing, where a number of his works were destroyed during a bomb attack in 1943. After his marriage to Franziska Engel from Volkmarsen , he first lived at Viktoriastraße 18, then later until his death in 1960 at Viktoriastraße 20 in Schwabing.

Even after the war, Roth instructed some students in painting, such as Herbert Bodemer (* 1941) in the 1960s. Roth found his final resting place as an artist in the Alten Bogenhausen cemetery in Munich (grave 3-3-73); his wife Franziska Roth, widowed Faltermeier († 2003), also rests there.

See also

List of well-known personalities at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich

literature

• Roth, Karl Friedrich . 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. 89 .
• Roth, Karl Friedrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 115 .
• Lilo Fürst-Ramdohr: Friendships in the White Rose. Verlag Geschichtswerkstatt Neuhausen, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-931231-00-3 .
• Gerhard J. Bellinger , Brigittegler-Bellinger : Schwabings Ainmillerstraße and its most important residents. A representative example of Munich's city history from 1888 to today. Norderstedt 2003, ISBN 3-8330-0747-8 , pp. 230-231.

Web links

• Karl Roth Adbkm register

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 05401 Karl Roth . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 3: 1884-1920 . Munich 1920 ( matrikel.adbk.de , daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
2. ↑ goethezeitportal.de
3. ↑ Volksblatt Würzburg. No. 165 of July 20, 1935.
4. ^ Würzburger Generalanzeiger. No. 110 of May 12, 1936.
5. ↑ Gerhard J. Bellinger, Brigitte Regel-Bellinger: Schwabings Ainmillerstraße and its most important residents ... Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2003, ISBN 3-8330-0747-8 , p. 230 .
6. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )