Carl Rodeck

Carl Rodeck
Carl Rodeck - Self portrait
Born	(1841-09-13)13 September 1841 Emden, Germany
Died	14 April 1909(1909-04-14) (aged 67) Hamburg, Germany
Nationality	German
Known for	landscapes, marine, portrait

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

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. 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.