Carl Adloff
Carl (Karl) Adloff (12 January 1819 – 16 April 1863) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Life
Born in Düsseldorf, Adloff was the child of Franz Joseph Adloff (1786-1832) and Anna Margaretha Adloff, née Kaimer (1784-1846). From 1833 to 1843, he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where in 1836 he took the class of Landschaftsmaler under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer.[1] and attended the architecture class under Rudolf Wiegmann in 1840/1841. In the student lists of the Meisterklasse, he was listed as an architectural and landscape painter from 1840 to 1843. In his choice of motifs, he favoured - following the Dutch Golden Age painting - the Dutch landscape; he created beach, harbour, canal and city views, whose architecture he captured in detail and in a fine painting style. He often painted seascapes, which are bathed in a romantic mood of tranquillity by moonlight, morning and evening light. He was repeatedly represented at academic art exhibitions in Germany and abroad. Adloff was a member of the Malkasten.
Adloff married Adelheid Schmitz (1820-1893), who gave birth to his daughter Sybilla Carolina († 1927) in 1850. They lived at Pfannenschoppenstraße 239 (today Klosterstraße in Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte) - in the house where Alwine and Adolph Schroedter had lived before they went to Karlsruhe.[2][3] Sybilla Carolina became the wife of the animal painter Carl Jutz in 1868.[4] and 1873 mother of the later landscape painter Carl Ernst Bernhard Jutz.
Adloff died in Düsseldorf at the age of 44 and was buried at Golzheimer Friedhof (southern part).
Work
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- Burgruine, ca. 1840
- Holländischer Kanal, 1841
- Hafenpartie bei Amsterdam, 1846
- Winteransicht von Dordrecht, 1849.
- Landungsplatz in Dordrecht, 1851
- Ansicht von Ehrenbreitstein und Koblenz, 1854
- Seehafen im Sonnenlicht, 1857
- Morgen an der Zuiderzee, 1861, Museum Kunstpalast.[5]
- Fluss, mit Booten und Schiffen, 1861.[6]
References
- Rudolf Theilmann: Die Schülerlisten der Landschaftsklassen von Schirmer bis Dücker. In Wend von Kalnein (ed.): Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9, p. 144
- C. E. Lehmann (ed.): Wohnungs-Anzeiger und Adreßbuch der Oberbürgermeisterei Düsseldorf pro 1850. Selbstverlag, p. 2 (online)
- Schroeder, Adolph, Maler, Pfannenschoppenstr. 239, in Adreß-Kalender und Wohnungs-Anzeiger der Stadt Düsseldorf und der Vorstädte, 1847, p. 137
- Vgl. Abschnitt Weitere Grabsteine (260) on the Golzheimer Friedhof website in Portal wiki-de.genealogy.net, retrieved 12 September 2021
- Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819–1918, vol. 2, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9, p. 352 (catalogue Nr. 291)
- River, with boats and shipping, website in Portal collections.vam.ac.uk, retrieved 12 September 2021
Further reading
- Rudolf Wiegmann: Die Königliche Kunst-Akademie zu Düsseldorf, Buddeus Verlag, Düsseldorf 1856, p. 368.
- Julius Meyer: Karl Adloff. In Julius Meyer, Georg Kaspar Nagler: Neues Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, first vol., Verlag Wilhelm von Engelmann, Leipzig 1872, p. 84. (Online).
- Hermann Board: Adloff, Karl. In Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (ed.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Vol. 1: Aa–Antonio de Miraguel. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 86 (Textarchiv – Internet Archive).
- Hans Wolfgang Singer (ed.): Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon. First volume, Fifth unaltered edition, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt, 1921, p. 8 (Numerized).
- Martin Faass, Felix Krämer, Uwe M. Schneede (ed.): Seestücke. Von Caspar David Friedrich bis Emil Nolde. Prestel Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7913-3486-7, p. 139.
External links
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- Adloff, Carl, short biography at stiftung-volmer.de
- Karl Adloff, Auktionsresultate im Portal artnet.com
- Karl Adloff, Auktionsresultate im Portal arcadja.com