Karl Friedrich Rumohr

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Karl Friedrich Rumohr (1785 – 1843) was an art historian.

Rumohr was born in Dresden. He became a Catholic in 1804. A rich man, he visited Italy frequently, and was, despite his reportedly irritable temperament, a guest of Frederick William IV of Prussia and Christian VIII of Denmark. When he died at Breslau, the latter built a monument in his honour.

[edit] Publications

Italienische Forschungen (Italian Research; 3 vols., 182-31), which dealt with the Umbrian-Tuscan School of painting.
Works on the rural condition of Central and Upper Italy.
Drei Reisen nach Italien.
Hans Holbein der Jungere in seinem Verhältnis zum deutschen Formschnittwesen
Zur Geschichte und Theorie der Formschneidekunst
Geschichte der königlichen Kupferstichsammlung zu Kopenhagen
Novellen
Deutsche Denkwürdigkeiten (4 vols.)
Hunde-Füchsestreit (Kynalopekomachie) and Schule der Höflichkeit (School of Courtesy), which are written in a humorous vein.
Geist der Kochkunst (The spirit of cookery) also extended his fame and popularity.

[edit] Sources

Biography by SCHULZ (Leipzig, 1844);
POEL in Allg. Deutsche Biogr., XXIX.
This article incorporates text from the entry Karl Friedrich Rumohr in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.