Karl Philipp Fohr
German painter (1795-1818)
Karl Philipp Fohr (26 November 1795 – 29 June 1818), a brother of Daniel Fohr, was a German painter, born at Heidelberg in 1795.
Life and education
Fohr started his studies of painting with Friedrich Rottmann, and was largely self-taught. In 1810 he was discovered by the painter Georg Wilhelm Issel, who invited him to Darmstadt in 1811. There, his future biographer Johann Philipp Dieffenbach introduced him to the grand-ducal court at Darmstadt and to Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, who acted as a patron, placed small orders from him, and offered him later an annual salary. While hiking through the Odenwald and the valley of the river Neckar, Fohr executed a serial of preliminary sketches to the watercolors for the Skizzenbuch der Neckargegend, which was finalized in the winter of 1813/14 and dedicated to Princess Wilhelmine, offering pittoresque views, historical and fairy-tale subjects of the region. In 1814, he was part of Princess Wilhelmine's convoy to her summer-resort to the spa town of Baden-Baden. The Badisches Skizzenbuch, commissioned by Princess Wilhelmine, was a result of his tours through the Black Forest, containing pittoresque views e.g. of Kloster Lichtenthal, the burial place of the Margraves of Baden.
It was with Princess Wilhelmine's thereupon granted scholarship that Fohr went to Munich to study at the Academy of Fine Arts from July 1815 to May 1816. There he became friends with fellow student Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl, from whom he learned the basics of oil-painting.
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