Leopold Rottmann
Leopold Rottmann (born October 2, 1812 in Heidelberg , † March 26, 1881 in Munich ) was a German landscape painter .
Life
He was born as the son of the university drawing teacher and painter Friedrich Rottmann , who initially taught him. Then he was further developed in painting and drawing by Jakob Wilhelm Roux and finally by his older brother Carl Rottmann . In 1830 he went to the Munich Art Academy for a short time as a student , where in 1840 he was given a teaching position for the technique of lithography .
He was the drawing teacher of Crown Prince Ludwig, the future King Ludwig II of Bavaria , who commissioned him in 1861, under the influence of Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin , to paint costumes, scenes and figures. Ludwig's cousin, the delicate and intelligent Princess Therese of Bavaria , also received lessons from Leopold Rottmann. Later she dedicated herself to the sciences. Even Julius Mařák , landscape painter and from 1887 professor of landscape painting at the Art Academy in Prague , was one of his students.
As a landscape painter, Leopold Rottmann, who particularly distinguished himself with his watercolors , became on the one hand the naturalists and on the other hand the classically heroic painters such as Joseph Anton Koch and Friedrich Preller the Elder. Ä. , counted.
The tomb of Leopold Rottmann is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 36 - number 11 - number 18) location .
literature
- Hyacinth Holland : Rottmann, Leopold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 399-401.
Web links
Individual evidence
- Richard Graul : Introduction to Art History. 1916
- Rupert Hacker (ed.): Ludwig II. King of Bavaria in eyewitness reports. 1966
- Heidelberg History Association V, personal name
- Hadumod Bußmann : Princess Therese of Bavaria. Lecture series Bayerischer Rundfunk
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rottmann, Leopold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1881 |
| Place of death | Munich |