Carl (Karl) Adloff (12 January 1819 – 16 April 1863) was a German painter of the

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Life

Born in Düsseldorf, Adloff was the child of Franz Joseph Adloff (1786-1832) and Anna Margaretha Adloff, ''née'' Kaimer (1784-1846). From 1833 to 1843, he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where in 1836 he took the class of Landschaftsmaler under

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. and attended the architecture class under

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in 1840/1841. In the student lists of the Meisterklasse, he was listed as an architectural and landscape painter from 1840 to 1843. In his choice of motifs, he favoured - following the Dutch Golden Age painting - the Dutch landscape; he created beach, harbour, canal and city views, whose architecture he captured in detail and in a fine painting style. He often painted

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, which are bathed in a

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mood of tranquillity by moonlight, morning and evening light. He was repeatedly represented at academic art exhibitions in Germany and abroad. Adloff was a member of the Malkasten. Adloff married Adelheid Schmitz (1820-1893), who gave birth to his daughter Sybilla Carolina († 1927) in 1850. They lived at Pfannenschoppenstraße 239 (today Klosterstraße in Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte) - in the house where Alwine and Adolph Schroedter had lived before they went to Karlsruhe. Sybilla Carolina became the wife of the animal painter in 1868. and 1873 mother of the later landscape painter Carl Ernst Bernhard Jutz. Adloff died in Düsseldorf at the age of 44 and was buried at (southern part).

Work

* ''Burgruine'', ca. 1840 * ''Holländischer Kanal'', 1841 * ''Hafenpartie bei Amsterdam'', 1846 * ''Winteransicht von Dordrecht'', 1849. * ''Landungsplatz in Dordrecht'', 1851 * ''Ansicht von Ehrenbreitstein und Koblenz'', 1854 * ''Seehafen im Sonnenlicht'', 1857 * ''Morgen an der Zuiderzee'', 1861, Museum Kunstpalast. * ''Fluss, mit Booten und Schiffen'', 1861.''River, with boats and shipping''
website in Portal ''collections.vam.ac.uk'', retrieved 12 September 2021

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''Adloff, Carl''
short biography at ''stiftung-volmer.de''
''Karl Adloff''
Auktionsresultate im Portal ''artnet.com''
''Karl Adloff''
Auktionsresultate im Portal ''arcadja.com'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Adloff, Carl 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German landscape painters German marine artists 1819 births 1863 deaths Artists from Düsseldorf

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