Emil Ludwig Löhr (1809 - 1876)

Landscape painter Emil Ludwig Löhr, son of a banker, was born in Berlin in 1809 and came to Vienna in 1818. Leopold Kupelwieser (1796–1862) taught him the religious art of the Nazarene painters. Löhr travelled to Rome, where Joseph Anton Koch (1768–1839) inspired his interest in Landscape painting. In 1840 he returned to Germany, suffering from malaria, and from then on, to relieve his incurable gout, he spent every summer in Gastein – with the exception of July 1849, when he was staying in Hamburg. He painted countless scenes of the Gastein region. He died on 21 April 1876 in Munich, where his family spent their winters.

Author: Ducke Astrid

Literature: Ducke Astrid, Habersatter Thomas (Hrsg./Edi.) Stadt · Land · Berg. Salzburg und seine Umgebung. Town · Landscape · Mountain. Salzburg and surroundings. Salzburg 2022, S./p. 128