Hermann David Salomon Corrodi

Hermann David Salomon Corrodi ( born July 23, 1844 in Frascati, Rome Province, Italy, † January 30, 1905 in Rome, Italy) was an Italian painter and university professor Swiss descent.

Life

Corrodi is the son of Swiss painter and draftsman Salomon Corrodi. He took his art studies in Geneva, along with his brother Arnold Corrodi among others, Alexandre Calame on, but then declined back to Rome at his father, who taught there at the Accademia di San Luca. At the conclusion of his studies he went to Paris in 1872.

1872 was also the year in which Corrodi the royal family of England was presented that some of his landscape paintings, his favorite subject, acquired. Also other royal houses of Europe and the German nobility and gave him orders. After the death of his brother Arnold 1874 he heard for two years to paint pictures, but began again in 1874, with its picturesque activities. In the summer lived and worked in Hamburg and Baden -Baden, in the winter in Rome. He attended drawing and painting the Middle East with Syria and Egypt, traveled to many countries in the Mediterranean and even went to the Far East. Many of his works of style of Orientalism of the 19th century are attributed.

Honors and Awards

Works

• Kiosk of Trajan at Philae on the Nile
• The raid
• Arab rug merchant.
• View of the Bosphorus.
• The freshwater wells on the Asian side of the Bosphorus, undated, oil on canvas, 86.5 x 165 cm