Karl Philipp Fohr

Portrait of Fohr by Carl Barth, c. 1817

Knight before the Charcoal Burner's Hut, 1816, now in the Alte Nationalgalerie

Karl Philipp Fohr, a brother of Daniel Fohr, was born at Heidelberg in 1795, and studied at Munich, chiefly by himself from nature and the great masters. His paintings, which are to be met with at Karlsruhe, Darmstadt, and Frankfurt, display genius and grandeur of style. In the Städel Institute at Frankfurt are views of Tivoli and Heidelberg. His death occurred in 1818 at Rome, from bathing in the Tiber.

The waterfalls of Tivoli

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  Portrait of Johann Anton Ramboux, c. 1810
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  Lindenfels, 1812, drawing
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  Ruin of the Tiefburg at Handschuhsheim, 1813-1814, watercolor over graphite, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum
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  Summer house and stone table in the English Garden of Heidelberg Castle, before 1816
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  Landscape near Subiaco, 1817, now in the Schlossmuseum Darmstadt
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  Heidelberg Castle

See also

• List of German painters
• Template:It The waterfalls of Tivoli
• Template:It Ancient Greek Coffee

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "FOHR, Karl Philipp". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.[[Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, volume 1|]]