Salomon Corrodi
Salomon Corrodi (23 April 1810 – July 4, 1892) was a Swiss-Italian painter, mainly of watercolor landscapes.[1]
Salomon Corrodi (c.1890)
View of the Forum Romanum (1845)
Biography
He was born in Fehraltorf, the son of an Italian Protestant preacher living in Switzerland.[2] Two of his sons, Hermann and Arnold, were also painters. A collection of his vedute has been published.[3] He trained with Johann Jakob Wetzel (1781-1834), and came to Rome in 1832, along with his fellow pupil Jakob Suter (1805–1874), after visiting Genoa and Pisa. In Rome, he was influenced by the circle of Neoclassical artists around Bertel Thorvaldsen[4] He died in Como, Italy.
Notes
- Rocky Landscape (attributed to Corrodi).
References
- Garollo, Gottardo (1907). Ulrico Hoepli (ed.). Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p. 583.
- Istituto Matteucci biography.
- Il Grand Tour nelle vedute italiane di Salomon Corrodi, pittore svizzero, 1810-1892.
- From notes regarding a watercolor of the Villa d'Este in Tivoli at tibursuperbum.it.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Salomon Corrodi.
- Works by or about Salomon Corrodi at Internet Archive
- Salomon Corrodi in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
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