Woldemar Hottenroth (20 August 1802, in

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– 6 September 1894, in Dresden) was a German portrait, landscape and

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painter in the Late-Romantic style.

Life

His father worked as a servant for Queen Marie Amalie von Pfalz-Zweibrücken.Biography of Hottenroth
@ Stadtwiki Dresden His ancestors were Italian merchants who came to Germany during the construction of the

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. At the local Catholic school, one of his fellow students was

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, and he first displayed his artistic talents by coloring the engravings made by Ludwig's father, . In 1816, he began to take drawing classes at the

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. Later, he attended the regular art classes, where he studied under Friedrich Matthäi and

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. He graduated in 1826. Together with his brother, Edmund Hottenroth (who would later become a well-known landscape painter), he took a trip through the

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and other areas of

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. From 1828 to 1830, a scholarship enabled them to continue their studies in France (where he was influenced by

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and

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), then Italy. In Rome, they became part of the circle of German painters there, taking lessons from

Joseph Anton Koch Joseph Anton Koch (27 July 1768 – 12 January 1839) was an Austrian painter of Neoclassicism and later the German Romantic movement; he is perhaps the most significant neoclassical landscape painter. Biography The Tyrolese painter was born ...

and

Johann Christian Reinhart Johann Christian Reinhart (24 January 1761 – 9 June 1847) was a German painter and engraver. He was one of the founders, along with Joseph Anton Koch, of German romantic classical landscape painting. Biography Reinhart was born in Hof, Bava ...

. He returned to Germany in 1843, living in Hamburg with his new wife, followed by a second stay in Italy from 1851 to 1853, then back to Dresden. Working as a freelance artist, he continued to travel extensively. Many of his later works were done in

Biedermaier The ''Biedermeier'' period was an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew in number and the arts appealed to common sensibilities. It began with the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in ...

fashion. He died at his summer house, "Am Steinberg" in the Wachwitz District.

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