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Karl Philipp Fohr (26 November 1795 – 29 June 1818), a brother of
Daniel Fohr, was a German painter, born at
Heidelberg
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in 1795.
Life and education
Fohr started his studies of painting with
Friedrich Rottmann, and was largely self-taught. In 1810 he was discovered by the painter Georg Wilhelm Issel, who invited him to
Darmstadt in 1811. There, his future biographer
Johann Philipp Dieffenbach
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introduced him to the grand-ducal court at Darmstadt and to
Princess Wilhelmine of Baden
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, who acted as a patron, placed small orders from him, and offered him later an annual salary. While hiking through the
Odenwald and the valley of the river
Neckar, Fohr executed a serial of preliminary sketches to the watercolors for the ''Skizzenbuch der Neckargegend'', which was finalized in the winter of 1813/14 and dedicated to Princess Wilhelmine, offering pittoresque views, historical and fairy-tale subjects of the region. In 1814, he was part of Princess Wilhelmine's convoy to her summer-resort to the
spa town
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of
Baden-Baden
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. The ''Badisches Skizzenbuch'', commissioned by Princess Wilhelmine, was a result of his tours through the
Black Forest
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, containing pittoresque views e.g. of
Kloster Lichtenthal, the burial place of the
Margraves of Baden
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.
It was with Princess Wilhelmine's thereupon granted scholarship that Fohr went to
Munich
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to study at the
Academy of Fine Arts
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from July 1815 to May 1816. There he became friends with fellow student Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl, from whom he learned the basics of oil-painting. In autumn 1815 he hiked through
Tyrol
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to
Venice
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. From May to October 1816 Fohr had a stop in
Heidelberg
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where he came in contact to a circle of political engaged students.
Rome
When Fohr dropped out of the academy of
Munich
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to travel on foot to northern Italy, and arrived in
Rome
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in 1816, he briefly joined the circles of the
Nazarenes and the
Deutsch-Römer. In Rome, where Fohr increasingly developed his own style, he shared a studio with the landscape painter
Joseph Anton Koch
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, whose heroic Italian landscapes influenced his own works. Like many of the
Nazarenes,
Deutsch-Römer, Lukasbrüder (as a sub-group of the Nazarenes was called
Lukasbund ), and other northern artists and writers in Rome, he frequented the
Caffé Greco – many of them twice a day or more: in 1817 for example, 82 German artists stayed in Rome, a record says. By the end of the year 1817, Fohr started with single portrait drawings as preparation for his renowned group portrait of the artists in Rome at the
Café Greco, which belongs to his most important works and is one of the most important contributions to the romantic cult of friendship, which arose around 1800. First approach in developing the group portrait were, as
Wilhelm Schlink has widely discussed, two designs of the composition in its entirety (
Frankfurt
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am Main,
Städel Museum). Single portrait studies followed (lots of them in
Heidelberg
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,
Kurpfälzisches Museum
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), among them portraits of fellow artists like
Peter Cornelius
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Life
He was born in Mainz to Carl Joseph Gerhard (1793–1843) and Friederike (1789–1867) Cornelius, actors i ...
,
Johann Friedrich Overbeck
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Early life and education
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,
Theodor Rehbenitz,
Philipp Veit
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, the copperplate engraver and draftsman
Carl Johann Barth, or the architect Johannes Buck, but also the admired landscape painter and teacher
Joseph Anton Koch
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The Tyrolese painter was born i ...
, the landscape painter
Martin von Rohden, the architect
Kaspar Waldmann, the poet and writer
Friedrich Rückert
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, and not least Fohr himself. Although Fohr obviously intended to depict the crowd of artists that gathered in the Caffé Greco, the design should not – with respect to the cult of friendship mentioned above – be considered as a snap-shot or a realistic impression. Fohr was actually more a landscape painter than a portraitist. Whatever the intention of the group portrait was, maybe a copper engraving to be sold to friends and colleagues, the project was stopped by Fohr's tragic death. On 29 June 1818 Fohr drownd whilst bathing in the river
Tiber
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with his friends
Carl Johann Barth,
Johann Anton Ramboux, and Samuel Amsler. To raise funds for a monument in his memory, they created
print after a drawing of Fohrby Barth. Samuel Amsler produced the print, as Barth was too distressed to make the print himself. Fohr is buried in the
Protestant Cemetery in Rome.
Legacy
Despite his premature death Fohr left an impressive oeuvre (see catalogue raisonnée), which includes around 800 drawings, watercolors, and prints, but only seven paintings, predominantly preserved in
Frankfurt
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am Main,
Städel Museum, and in
Darmstadt Hessisches Landesmuseum
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See also
*
List of German painters
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* Hans von Aachen (1552–1615)
* Aatifi (born 1965)
* Karl Abt (1899–1985)
* Tomma Abts (born 1967)
* Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910)
* Oswald Achenbach (1827 ...
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Selected works
Carl Philipp Fohr - Knight before the Charcoal Burner's Hut - WGA7968.jpg, ''Knight before the Charcoal Burner's Hut'', 1816, now in the Alte Nationalgalerie
Fohr Cascatelle di Tivoli.jpg, ''The Waterfalls of Tivoli''
File:Lindenfels 1812.png, ''Lindenfels
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Geography
Location
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'', 1812, drawing
File:Carl Philipp Fohr (German - Ruin of the Tiefburg at Handschuhsheim - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Ruin of the Tiefburg at Handschuhsheim'', 1813-1814, watercolor over graphite, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum
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File:Sommerhaus und Steintisch im Englischen Garten Heidelberger Schloss von Carl Philipp fohr 1816.jpg, ''Summer house and stone table in the English Garden of Heidelberg Castle'', before 1816
File:Carl Philipp Fohr 003.jpg, ''Landscape near Subiaco'', 1817, now in the Schlossmuseum Darmstadt
File:Heidelberger Schloss von Carl Philipp fohr.jpg, ''Heidelberg Castle''
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1795 births
1818 deaths
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters
Artists from Heidelberg
Deaths by drowning
Burials in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome