Karoly Lotz
Horses in a Rainstorm
Allegorical Figure of Reality (part)
Peasants Dancing (Harvest celebration)
Spring (Portrait of Ilona Lippich)
Young Gilr with Coral Earrings
Portrait of Ilonka Sándor (Blond Girl in Yellow Dress)
Portrait of a Woman (Portrait of Kornélia Lotz)
Daughter of the Artist (Portrait of Ilona Lotz)
Portrait of a Woman (Blue-Eyed_Woman)
Allegory of the Summer (sketch)
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Horses in a Rainstorm
Lotz Károly Antal Pál, or Karl Anton Paul Lotz (16 December 1833 – 13 October 1904) was a German-Hungarian painter.
Career
Horses in a Rainstorm (1862)
Karl
Lotz was born in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany, the 7th and
youngest surviving child of Wilhelm Christian Lotz and Antonia Höfflick
(Höfflich). His father was a valet of Prince Gustav zu Hessen-Homburg
at the time when the prince was representing Austria at the Congress of
Vienna, which among other matters dealt with the House of
Hessen-Homburg's rights of sovereignty over Hessen-Darmstadt. The
sudden death of the young Baron von Sinclair, chargé d'affaires, forced
W. C. Lotz temporarily into the rôle. While in Hungary in 1815 he made
the acquaintance of the 13-year-old Antonie Hoefflich, whom he married
three years later. She gave birth to 8 children, of whom Karl was the
youngest.
W. C. Lotz died in 1837 and Antonie moved the
family to Pest (now one of the three constituent parts of Budapest; the
one on the east bank of the River Danube). Karl attended the
Piaristengymnasium, where, although Calvinist, he was awarded a
scholarship for his exceptional academic performance. He began his
artistic career as a pupil of the Hofkapellmeister Destouches, then in
the academy of the Venetian master Jakab Marastoni (1804-1860). Later
he was a pupil of the historical painters Henrik Weber (1818-1866) in
Budapest and Carl Rahl (1812-1865) in Vienna.
Together with
Rahl he worked on numerous commissions. Later he started on his own
original works, first as a romantic landscape artist in scenes of the
Alföld (the Hungarian lowland plain), and then as a creator of
monumental murals and frescos in the style of the Venetian master
Tiepolo.
After various works in Budapest he became active in
Vienna. He laid out plans for a grandiose palace, and completed murals
commissioned by the Abbot of Tihany Abbey for his abbey church on the
shore of Lake Balaton. He became known for his portraits and nudes, for
which both his wife and his daughters (Katarina in particular) posed.
Lotz found married bliss only at the age of 58, when he married the
widow Jacoboy, the former wife of his brother Paul Johann Heinrich, who
had died in 1828. From then on he signed his works Károly Jacoboy-Lotz.
In
1882 Lotz was appointed Professor at various art academies in Budapest,
and in 1885 he became dean of a newly established department for women
painters. He was an honorary member of the Academy of Pictorial Arts in
Vienna.
Hist last important public commission was the
"Apotheosis of the Habsburg Dynasty", a huge ceiling fresco in the
Habsburg Room of the newly rebuilt Royal Palace, that he painted in
1903, one year before his death. Lotz was already seriously ill when he
worked on the fresco. The "Apotheosis" followed the traditions of
Baroque court painting and the work was praised by contemporary
critics. The fresco survived the war unscathed, but it was destroyed in
the 1950s.
He died in 1904 in Budapest. As a "Prince of
Hungarian Artists" he was given a state funeral and interred inside a
memorial. His pictures, drawings and sketches were donated to the State
of Hungary and are now in the Szépművészeti Múzeum. Several Hungarian
cities have streets named after him, there are Hungarian stamps bearing
his likeness, and there is a bust in the National Museum in Budapest.
Painting works
Galloping Outlaw (circa 1857)
Ceiling of the Budapest Opera (1884)
Mural in the large ceremonial room of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest
Mural in the stairways of the Hungarian Parliament Building in Budapest (1897)
Mural in Hungarian National Museum in Budapest (1874)
Mural in the Redoutensaal (Pesti Vigadó) of Budapest's main concert hall
Mural in the casino of Theresienstadt (Terezín), the Czech Republic
Ceiling and mural in the Stephansbasilika of Budapest as well as the seminary
"Apotheosis of the Habsburg Dynasty", ceiling fresco in Buda Castle (1903, lost)
Mural in the main market hall of Budapest
Mural in the east railway station of Budapest
Mural in the reading room of the library of Budapest University
Ceiling and mural in the Matthiaskirche (Church of St. Matthew) in Budapest
Ceiling and mural in the Justice Palace of Budapest (1894)
Mural in the Weapons Museum of the Arsenal in Budapest
Frescos of the Heinrichshof in Vienna (destroyed in WWII)
Various works at the palace of Earl Károlyi
Various works at the palace of Baron Weckheim
Various works at the palace of Baron Lipthay
Mural for the Tihany at Lake Balaton
Quotes
Professor Karl Lotz
by Lajos Linek (hu)
"...even among more than eighty pupils his gifts, his enthusiasm for
Truth and his tireless diligence shone out."
— (Carl Rahl writing about Karl Lotz und Moritz Than in a letter to the
Budapest architect Feßl, 28 April 1863)
"Though born in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, he belongs to Hungary by
virtue of his Hungarian-born mother and his family's residence in this
country. Generously endowed in every other way, only luck and a
commensurate material success have been denied him; he remains almost
hidden, despite his rare genius."
— (August George-Mayer, a school-friend of Carl Rahn, on his fellow pupil Karl Lotz, in 1883)
References
Austrian Biographical Lexicon: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon
(ÖBL) 1815-1950, Bd. 5 (Lfg. 24), p. 332 (de)
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