Daniel Fohr

Life

Daniel Fohr was the younger brother of the painter Carl Philipp Fohr. While still a student - he attended high school in Baden -Baden - he accompanied Carl Rottmann, and its Painters friends on their Rhine and Moselle trip. After high school, he should have taken a philology studies, then decided, however, to become a painter. By no later than 1825, he was one of the disciples of Peter Cornelius in Munich.

From 1829 Daniel Fohr worked as a landscape painter in Munich. After his appointment as court painter Baden, he returned in 1839 to his home. He lived only in Karlsruhe, but it dropped from 1846 to 1850 back in Munich on. After that, he lived as a court painter in Baden Baden -Baden.

Daniel Fohr had not the great talent of his brother, to whose character, he was based at the start, as well as to that of his friend August Lucas. In Munich, he worked in the style Rottmann and the Munich school of landscape painters. In this he succeeded, especially in the early days always fresh, realistic looking oil studies. By contrast, some of his later, literary certain fantasy landscapes bear very late romantic traits.