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Blanc, École allemande; Kugler (Crowe), i. 272; Nagler, xiii. 468.
ROTTMANN, KARL, born at Handschuchsheim,
near Heidelberg,
Jan. 11, 1797,
died in Munich,
July 6, 1850.
Landscape painter,
son of Friedrich
Rottmann
(died 1817), a
quite skilful
draughtsman
and painter in water-colours; first instructed
in Heidelberg by his father and the portrait
painter Xeller, much influenced by
Karl Fohr, with whom he was intimately
associated, but formed himself chiefly by
studying from nature and after the works
of Poussin and Josef Koch; settled in Munich
in 1822, visited Italy in 1826-28 and
Greece in 1834-35; became court painter
in 1841. His artistic work may be divided
into three periods: during the first he attached
less importance to colouring than to
drawing; the second is illustrated by the
28 Italian landscapes in fresco in the arcades
of the royal garden at Munich; the
third by the 23 Greek landscapes placed in
a special room in the Munich Gallery. He
was one of the most individual masters in
Germany, and his influence on landscape
painting was paramount. Works: Castle
Heidelberg in Evening Light, Burg Eltz
(before 1822); Ramsau Valley (1823); View
in Roman Campagna, Coliseum in Rome
(1826-28); View of Palermo, do. of Taormina
(1829); Bay of Baiæ; Burning Forest;
Ammer Lake, Marathon, National Gallery,
Berlin; German Cemetery near Nauplia,
Temple of Ægina, Raczynski Gallery,
ib.; Views in Greece (3), Carlsruhe Gallery;
View of Cefalù (1839), Cologne Museum;
View on the Obersee, Darmstadt Museum;
View near Corinth, Bay and Harbour of
Corfu, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; View of
Corfu, Lake Copais in Bœotia (2), Leipsic
Museum; 23 Views in Greece (Rottmann
Saal, 1845-50), Acropolis of Sicyon, Isle of
Ischia, View of Corfu, Monreale near Palermo,
The High Göll near Berchtesgaden,
View of Ætna from Taormina, Brannenburg
in Bavarian Alps, Grave City near Syracuse,
Eib Lake in Bavarian Alps, New Pinakothek,
Munich; View of Kochel Lake, The
High Göll in the Afterglow, Three Views in
Greece, do. near Rome, Schack Gallery, ib.;
Sunset near Epidauros, The Hintersee near
Berchtesgaden, Stuttgart Museum; Landscape,
Czernin Gallery, Vienna. In fresco:
28 Landscapes in Italy (1830-33), Arcades,
Munich; cartoons for them, Darmstadt Museum.—Bayersdorfer,
C. Rottmann; Ch. Blanc,
École allemande; Dioskuren
(1873), 227; Förster, v. 205; Graph.
K., v. 1; Jordan (1885), ii. 198; Kugler,
Kl. Schriften, iii. 130; Kunst-Chronik, viii.
176, 217; x. 392; Nagler, xiii. 473; Pecht,
ii. 3; Reber, ii. 268; Regnet, ii. 100;
Schack, Meine Gemäldesammlung (1884),
206; Springer, Gesch., 83; Zeitschr. f. b.
K., iv. 7, 72, 207.
ROTTMANN, LEOPOLD, born at Heidelberg,
Oct. 2, 1812, died at Munich,
March 26, 1881. Landscape painter, brother
of preceding, pupil of Roux at Heidelberg,
then of his brother and the Academy
in Munich, where he also became court
painter. Works: Altenau Lake in Styria
(1837), Fürstenberg Gallery, Donaueschingen;
Mountain Landscape, Provinzial Museum,
Hanover; Barm Lake near Partenkirchen,
Bavaria, New Pinakothek, Munich;
Hunting Album for King Maximilian II.
(50 water-colours, 1854-57); Album of Bavarian
Alps (70 water-colours, 1860-65);
Swiss Album; Album of Wagner's Music
Dramas.—Kunst-Chronik, xvi. 489; Nagler,
xiii. 478.
ROTTMAYR (Rothmeyer) VON ROSENBRUNN,
JOHANN MICHAEL, born
at Laufen, near Salzburg, about 1660, died
in Vienna, Oct. 25, 1730. German school;
history painter, studied in Salzburg and