Carl Rodeck

Carl Rodeck (13 September 1841 – 14 April 1909) was a German landscape, marine and portrait painter.^[1]

Life

Frühling im Walde
(Spring in the forest)

Gebäude der Patriotischen Gesellschaft
(Building of the Patriotic Society), 1897, Hamburg Rathaus

Carl Rodeck was born in Emden in 1841 as the son of a lithographer. In 1842 the family moved to Hamburg, where the father opened a shop in this branch. Rodeck studied from 1863 to 1866 under Arnold Böcklin, Ferdinand Pauwels and Alexander Michelis at the Weimar Saxon Grand Ducal Art School. After a return to Hamburg, caused by his father's illness in 1869, he settled down in 1870 for further studies in Berlin. He returned to Hamburg in 1871, where he then took up his permanent residence. After his father's death he closed the shop and devoted himself to painting only.

He quickly found the themes of his works, mainly oil paintings or watercolors. He described the German forest, the landscape on the Lower Elbe and the old harbor quarters of Hamburg and was constantly on the road with a sketchpad or easel. In 1869 the Hamburger Kunstverein had bought a picture of him the first time, which happened regularly in the 1870s. He was represented in all major exhibitions, including Hamburg and Hanover and later in Berlin, Dresden and Munich, but also in Vienna and London. In later years, he was also increasingly interested in portrait painting.

Study trips took him to Norway, together with his friend Carl Oesterley he visited the Netherlands, Belgium and England. In addition, to England he had family relations, his brother was the brother-in-law of the Frisian-English painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema.^[2] As a further source of income he gave private lessons in drawing and painting for daughters from the upper class of Hamburg. Among others the sisters Molly Cramer and Helene Cramer were his students, as well as his later wife Maria Hastedt, daughter of a Hamburg architect, the wedding took place 1888.

In 1907, after several strokes, he had to give up the painting. On 14 April 1909 he died, his corpse was cremated, the urn was buried in the Ohlsdorf Cemetery.^[2]

Selected works

• Angler an einem Teich im Wald (Angler at a pond in the forest), (Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow)
• Waldlandschaft (forest landscape), 1880^[3]
• Mittagsruhe - Schafherde im Wald (Noon rest - sheep herd in the forest), 1881^[4]
• Fischerdorf in der Nähe Hamburgs (Fishing village near Hamburg), 1881
• Abend auf der Elbe unterhalb Hamburg (Evening on the Elbe below Hamburg), 1888

References

• Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker at all (1934). Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. (in German). Vol. 28. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig. p. 460-461. 
• Friedrich von Boetticher (1898). Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts, Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte. (in German). Vol. 2. Dresden. p. 458.  (archive.org)
• Leo Wulff (1920). Carl Rodeck: sein Leben und sein Werk. (= Krone's Bücher der schönen Künste; 2) (in German). Krone, Hamburg. 
• Ernst Rump (ed.), Kay Rump (pub.), Maike Bruhns (pub.) (2005). Der Neue Rump. Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler Hamburgs, Altonas und der näheren Umgebung (in German) (2. ed.). Wachtholz, Neumünster. ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5. CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

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• Heißler, Sabine (2001). "Carl Rodeck" (PDF). In Tielke, Martin. Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland (in German). volume 3. ostfriesischelandschaft.de. pp. 364–366. Retrieved June 7, 2017. 

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