Edmund Hottenroth (9 October 1804, Blasewitz - 13 April 1889, Rome) was a German landscape painter in the late

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style. His brother was the portrait and genre painter, Woldemar Hottenroth.

Life and work

He was born to Franz Aloys Hottenroth, a Chamberlain, and his wife Josepha, née Busetti. Her ancestors were Italian merchants, who had come to Germany during the construction of Dresden Cathedral. He attended a

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, then served an apprenticeship at a business. He was largely self-taught in drawing and painting, although he took a few lessons from

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and

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. In 1826, together with his brother, he took a trip to the Riesengebirge, and other parts of Bohemia. From 1829 to 1830 he and Woldemar were in Paris, following which they made a joint study trip to Italy. There, they became a part of the German-Roman community; taking lessons from Joseph Anton Koch and

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. Woldemar returned to Germany in 1844, but he chose to stay in Rome and become a landscape painter. He also designed and executed decorations for the

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; a gathering place for the intellectual community. He died in Rome and was buried there.

Sources

* Johann Edmund Hottenroth: ''Woldemar Hottenroth (1802–1894) – Das Leben eines Malers'', 1927, Aretz, Dresden * Claudia Maria Müller: ''Zum 200. Geburtstag des Malers Woldemar Hottenroth (1802–1894)'', Dresden, 2002 * Gabriele Gorgas: "Zwei wenig bekannte Spätromantiker", in: ''

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'', #28. Januar 2013, pg.16

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