"Karl Philipp Fohr, a brother of Daniel Fohr, was born at Heidelberg in 1795. He started his studies of painting with Friedrich Rottmann, and was largely ...
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self-taught. In 1810 he was discovered by the painter Georg Wilhelm Issel, who invited him to Darmstadt in 1811. There Johann Philipp Dieffenbach introduced him to Grand Dutchess Wilhelmine of Hessen, who acted as a patron and placed small orders from him.
Later he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he became friends with fellow student Ludwig Sigismun Ruhl, from whom he learned painting in oil. Fohr dropped out of the Academy to travel on foot to northern Italy, and arrived in Rome in 1816. He briefly joined the circle of the Nazarenes, but increasingly developed his own style. In Rome, he shared a studio with the landscape painter Joseph Anton Koch, whose paintings influenced Fohr´s style." - (en.wikipedia.org 30.01.2020)
