Edmund Hottenroth

Edmund Hottenroth (9 October 1804, Blasewitz - 13 April 1889, Rome) was a German landscape painter in the late Romantic style. His brother was the portrait and genre painter, Woldemar Hottenroth.

Water Buffalo in the Roman Campagna
View of the Campagna with Roman Aqueduct

Life and work

He was born to Franz Aloys Hottenroth, a Chamberlain, and his wife Josepha, née Busetti. Her ancestors were Italian merchants, who had come to Germany during the construction of Dresden Cathedral.

He attended a Catholic school, then served an apprenticeship at a business. He was largely self-taught in drawing and painting, although he took a few lessons from Caspar David Friedrich and Johan Christian Dahl.

In 1826, together with his brother, he took a trip to the Riesengebirge, and other parts of Bohemia. From 1829 to 1830 he and Woldemar were in Paris, following which they made a joint study trip to Italy. There, they became a part of the German-Roman community; taking lessons from Joseph Anton Koch and Johann Christian Reinhart.

Woldemar returned to Germany in 1844, but he chose to stay in Rome and become a landscape painter. He also designed and executed decorations for the Antico Caffè Greco; a gathering place for the intellectual community. He died in Rome and was buried there.

Sources
  • Johann Edmund Hottenroth: Woldemar Hottenroth (1802–1894) – Das Leben eines Malers, 1927, Aretz, Dresden
  • Claudia Maria Müller: Zum 200. Geburtstag des Malers Woldemar Hottenroth (1802–1894), Dresden, 2002
  • Gabriele Gorgas: "Zwei wenig bekannte Spätromantiker", in: Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, #28. Januar 2013, pg.16

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