Emil Ludwig Löhr
German, 1809-1876
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Emil Ludwig Löhr was a landscape painter, born in Berlin in 1809, came to Vienna with his father, the banker August L. , in 1818, received an excellent education there, devoted himself to religious art under Kupelwieser's direction, and then moved on to other arts.
Studies in Rome, but there, attracted by Joseph Anton Koch, he switched to landscape painting. After staying there for ten years, a stubborn malaria fever forced him to return to Germany (1840); his illness gave way here to an incurable gout, which led him to Gastein, where his suffering found partial relief.
This stay decided his future life. The nature of the area allowed the artist to resume his studies of nature. He spent the winter with his family in Munich.L. to Hamburg and caused a stir there with his photographic reproductions of old etchings and copperplate engravings, he also provided quite a number of portraits, but then returned to Gastein as a regular spa guest, left photography, which was incompatible with his condition.He died on April 21, 1876 in Munich, where he was buried as ostentatiously as possible, in accordance with his wishes.