Johann Carl Loth

Johann Carl Loth, called Carlotto, ( baptized on August 8, 1632 in Munich, † September 6, 1698 in Venice ) was a German painter of the Baroque.

Life

Johann Carl Loth was born in Munich, the son of the Bavarian court painter Ulrich Loth. After an initial training from his father as a painter, he continued his studies in Rome, where he met the painter and Rembrandt pupil Willem Drost, who went with him to Venice when Loth settled there around 1650 in Venice. There he came in contact with the Italian Baroque painters such as Francesco Ruschi, Giovanni Battista and Antonio Zanchi Langetti, the so-called Tenebrosi. He painted next to easel paintings with mythological and biblical themes, as well as after 1670 several large-scale altarpieces for churches in Venice, on the Terraferma and in Bavaria.

Loth entertained in Venice a workshop with several employees who worked for his thematic and formal spectrum, especially in Bavaria, Austria and Bohemia. Among his most important students count Hans Adam Weissenkircher and Johann Michael Rottmayr.

Works

• Self-portrait. 1693rd Florence, Uffizi.
• Mercury and Argus, London, The National Gallery
• Martyrdom of St. Eugene to 1684-97, Santa Maria del Giglio, Venice
• Jupiter and Mercury at Philemon and Baucis, until 1659, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum