Daniel Fohr
German, 1801-1862
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Daniel Fohr was a German painter.
Daniel Fohr was the younger brother of the painter Carl Philipp Fohr. While still a pupil - he attended grammar school in Baden-Baden - he accompanied Carl Rottmann and his painter friends on their journey along the Rhine and Moselle. After leaving school, he is said to have studied philology, but then decided to become a painter. From 1825 at the latest, he was a student of the Nazarene painter Peter Cornelius in Munich.
From 1829, Daniel Fohr worked as a landscape painter in Munich. After his appointment as court painter of Baden, he returned to his homeland in 1839. He first lived in Karlsruhe, but returned to Munich from 1846 to 1850. He then lived in Baden-Baden as painter to the court of Baden.
Daniel Fohr did not have the great talent of his brother, whose style of drawing he initially followed, nor that of his friend August Lucas. In Munich, he worked in the style of Rottmann and the Munich landscape school. Particularly in his early years, he repeatedly produced fresh, realistic-looking oil studies. In contrast, some of his later, literary fantasy landscapes bear distinctly late Romantic traits.
Daniel Fohr was a passionate art collector. He was particularly fond of Romantic drawings and especially the works of his brother.
