Karl Philipp Fohr
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Carl Philipp Fohr (born November 26, 1795 in Heidelberg , † June 29, 1818 in Rome ) was an important landscape painter of German Romanticism .
Life
Fohr began studying painting after training with Friedrich Rottmann largely as an autodidact . The Darmstadt councilor and painter Georg Wilhelm Issel discovered him in 1810 and invited him to Darmstadt in 1811. There he met the chamber secretary and historian Johann Philipp Dieffenbach , who introduced him to Hereditary Princess Wilhelmine Luise von Baden , from whom he received financial support and received small orders.
He later studied at the Academy in Munich , where he was friends with the art student Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl and learned to paint in oil from him . However, he broke off his studies at the Munich Academy prematurely to travel on foot to Northern Italy and later to Rome . There he briefly joined the circle of the Nazarenes around Peter von Cornelius , Philipp Veit and Friedrich Overbeck , but increasingly developed his own style. He shared a studio in Rome with the Tyrolean landscape painter Joseph Anton Koch , whose work influenced his style .
One of his most important works is the design of a group picture of the German artists in Rome, in the Café Greco . In 1816 he went to Heidelberg , where he joined the Teutonia fraternity around Karl Follen . On June 29, 1818 Fohr drowned while bathing in the Tiber .
His younger brother Daniel Fohr was also a landscape painter, at times he held the position of court painter in Baden. Karl Philipp and Daniel Fohr are great-grand-uncles of the painter Christian Schad .
In literary terms his life was treated in the short story Fohr by Peter Härtling .
Works
- View of the Neuburg Abbey near Heidelberg (1813)
- Ehrenberg Castle on the Neckar (1813/1814)
- Heidelberg Castle from the way to the Königsstuhl (1814)
- Student assembly in the restaurant in Neuenheim (1814)
- Heidelberg Castle from the east with three students (1815)
- Self-portrait of Carl Philipp Fohr in a military lace-up skirt (1815/16)
- Adolf August Ludwig Follen (1816)
- The rose miracle of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia (1816/17)
- Three designs by the German artists in Rome (1817/18)
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literature
- Paul Ferdinand Schmidt : Fohr, Carl Philipp . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 142–144 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Peter Märker: Carl Philipp Fohr 1795–1818. Monograph and catalog raisonné. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7774-2174-2 .
- Ph. Dieffenbach: The life of the painter Karl Fohr. Darmstadt 1823.
- Friedrich Pecht : Fohr, Carl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 147 f.
- Arthur von Schneider: Fohr, Carl Philipp. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , pp. 283-285 ( digitized version ).
- Kurt Schwarzweller: Karl Philipp Fohr 1795-1818. Frankfurt am Main 1968 ( Städelsches Kunstinstitut , exhibition catalog).
- Ulrike Andersson, Annette Frese: Carl Philipp Fohr and his artist friends in Rome. For the 200th birthday of the Heidelberg artist. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 1995, 248 pp. (Exhibition catalog of the Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg ).
- Carl Philipp Fohr: Romanticism - Landscape and History. Catalog of drawings and watercolors in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and paintings from private ownership. On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name from December 17, 1995 to March 3, 1996 in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and from April 25 to July 20, 1997 in the Haus der Kunst in Munich . Edited by Peter Märker. Darmstadt 1995.
- General artist lexicon . Volume 16, 2004, p. 504.
- Peter Härtling: Days with an echo. Two stories. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2013.
- Roland Dotzert et al .: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-1930-3 , p. 255.
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Philipp Fohr in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Karl Philipp Fohr at Zeno.org .
- Carl Philipp Fohr and the Café Greco in Rome
- The Tivoli waterfalls
Individual evidence
- ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 209-211.
- ↑ in detail with ill. Wilhelm Schlink : Vulnerable faces. Portraits of German artists in the 19th century. In: Freiburg University Gazette. Issue 132, 1996, pp. 131–151, freidok.uni-freiburg.de (PDF; 7.4 MB).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fohr, Karl Philipp |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fohr, Carl Philipp |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1795 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1818 |
Place of death | Rome |