Karl Philipp Fohr

Life

Fohr began the study of painting, after training with Friedrich Rottmann largely self-taught. The Darmstadt Court Councillor and painter Georg Wilhelm Issel discovered him in 1810 and invited him to Darmstadt in 1811 a. There he learned the chamber secretary and historian Johann Philipp Dieffenbach know, who introduced him to the Princess Beatrice Wilhelmine Luise of Baden, of which he was supported and received small orders.

Later he studied at the Academy in Munich, where he was friends with the Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl art students and learned from him to paint in oil. However, studies at the Munich Academy, he broke off early in order to travel on foot to northern Italy and later to Rome. There he joined a short time among the Nazarenes to Peter von Cornelius, Philipp Veit and Friedrich Overbeck on, but increasingly developed its own style. With the Tyrolean landscape painter Joseph Anton Koch, whose work influenced his style, he shared a studio in Rome.

One of his most important works is the design of a group image of the German artists in Rome, at the Café Greco. On June 29, 1818 Fohr was 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 Baden. Fohr 's great-great uncle of the painter Christian Schad.

Works

• View of Stift Neuburg at Heidelberg (1813 )
• Ehrenberg Castle on the Neckar (1813/1814)
• The Heidelberg Castle from the path to King Chair (1814 )
• Student gathering in the tavern to New Home (1814 )
• The Maple Herger castle from the east with three students (1815 )
• Self-Portrait of Carl Philipp Fohr in the military Schnürrock (1815 /16)
• Adolf August Ludwig Follen (1816 )
• The Rose Miracle of St. Elizabeth of Thuringia (1816 /17)
• Three designs of the German artists in Rome (1817 /18)