Karl Klemens della Croce

Karl Klemens della Croce (* 1816 ; † 1891 ) was a German painter and photographer .

Life

Photograph of the Keller family from Altötting . On the left probably Constanze Mozart.

Karl Klemens della Croce was born in 1816 as the fifth child of the Burghausen painter Clemens Evangelist della Croce and his wife Josepha Carolina Beck. This makes him the grandson of the famous painter Johann Nepomuk della Croce . His father died in 1823 and the workshop was run by the painter Johann Babtist Detter, with whom Karl Klemens completed his first training. In 1833 he attended the KB Polytechnic Central School in Munich and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts . After completing his military service, he received civil rights in Burghausen on July 3, 1840 and took over the workshop from his mother. At about the same time he took over the teaching post at the Burghausen drawing school. On November 20 of the same year he married the mayor's daughter Franziska Clementine Loferer (1810–1846). She died after the birth of her fourth child. On May 18, 1847, he married his second wife, Maria Franziska Binter (1814–1879), with whom he had three children. Della Croce carried out various painting and restoration work in the study church St. Josef and the auditorium of the former Jesuit college in Burghausen . Probably during his studies, della Croce came into contact with the then new technology of photography and offered his services as a daguerreotypist . It is discussed that in October 1840 he took a photo of Constanze Mozart , the widow of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . The picture would therefore be one of the oldest photographic recordings in Bavaria.

After della Croce's death in 1891, his eldest son, Clement della Croce, applied for his successor. The artist, seriously wounded in the campaign against France in 1870/71, however, suffered from unstable and depressive states of mind afterwards, which is why he was denied access. He was incapacitated in 1892 and died in the Garbersee hospital in 1894 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Dieter Goerge: Burghauser drawing masters and teachers in the 18th and 19th centuries . In: Dietmar Grypa , Wolfgang Gutfleisch (eds.): The Kurfürst-Maximilian-Gymnasium zu Burghausen: from the college of the Societas Jesu to the Royal Bavarian College . Eichstätt 1997, ISBN 3-00-002265-1 .
^ Alfred Zeller: Early photography in Altötting: 1840 to 1934 . Sutton Verlag GmbH, 2013, ISBN 978-3-95400-298-6 ( google.de [accessed on January 1, 2020]).
↑ Alfred Zeller, Manfred Lerch: The portrait of Constanze Mozart - a discovery of music and technology history in the Altötting of the Biedermeier period. City of Altötting, 2006, accessed on January 3, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Croce, Karl Klemens della
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1816
DATE OF DEATH	1891

[:0-1] Dieter Goerge: Burghauser drawing masters and teachers in the 18th and 19th centuries . In: Dietmar Grypa , Wolfgang Gutfleisch (eds.): The Kurfürst-Maximilian-Gymnasium zu Burghausen: from the college of the Societas Jesu to the Royal Bavarian College . Eichstätt 1997, ISBN 3-00-002265-1 .

[2] Alfred Zeller: Early photography in Altötting: 1840 to 1934 . Sutton Verlag GmbH, 2013, ISBN 978-3-95400-298-6 ( google.de [accessed on January 1, 2020]).

[3] Alfred Zeller, Manfred Lerch: The portrait of Constanze Mozart - a discovery of music and technology history in the Altötting of the Biedermeier period. City of Altötting, 2006, accessed on January 3, 2020 .