Artist

Carl Rottmann

Portrait of Carl Rottmann
Portrait of Carl Rottmann

Kingdom of Bavaria, 1797–1850

Carl Rottmann was a Kingdom of Bavaria Realism artist. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum. Carl Rottmann was born in Heidelberg.

Carl Anton Joseph Rottmann (11 January 1797, in Handschuhsheim (today a part of Heidelberg) – 7 July 1850, in Munich) was a German landscape painter and the most famous member of the Rottmann family of painters. Rottmann belonged to the circle of artists around King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who commissioned large landscape paintings exclusively from him. He is best known for mythical and heroising landscapes. The landscape painter Karl Lindemann-Frommel belonged to his school.

Works by Carl Rottmann

Collections represented

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