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 Blanc, École allemande; Kugler (Crowe), i. 272; Nagler, xiii. 468.

ROTTMANN, KARL, born at Handschuchsheim, near Heidelberg, Jan. 11, 1797, died in Munich, July 6, 1850. Landscape painter, son of Friedrich Rottmann (died 1817), a quite skilful draughtsman and painter in water-colours; first instructed in Heidelberg by his father and the portrait painter Xeller, much influenced by Karl Fohr, with whom he was intimately associated, but formed himself chiefly by studying from nature and after the works of Poussin and Josef Koch; settled in Munich in 1822, visited Italy in 1826-28 and Greece in 1834-35; became court painter in 1841. His artistic work may be divided into three periods: during the first he attached less importance to colouring than to drawing; the second is illustrated by the 28 Italian landscapes in fresco in the arcades of the royal garden at Munich; the third by the 23 Greek landscapes placed in a special room in the Munich Gallery. He was one of the most individual masters in Germany, and his influence on landscape painting was paramount. Works: Castle Heidelberg in Evening Light, Burg Eltz (before 1822); Ramsau Valley (1823); View in Roman Campagna, Coliseum in Rome (1826-28); View of Palermo, do. of Taormina (1829); Bay of Baiæ; Burning Forest; Ammer Lake, Marathon, National Gallery, Berlin; German Cemetery near Nauplia, Temple of Ægina, Raczynski Gallery, ib.; Views in Greece (3), Carlsruhe Gallery; View of Cefalù (1839), Cologne Museum; View on the Obersee, Darmstadt Museum; View near Corinth, Bay and Harbour of Corfu, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; View of Corfu, Lake Copais in Bœotia (2), Leipsic Museum; 23 Views in Greece (Rottmann Saal, 1845-50), Acropolis of Sicyon, Isle of Ischia, View of Corfu, Monreale near Palermo, The High Göll near Berchtesgaden, View of Ætna from Taormina, Brannenburg in Bavarian Alps, Grave City near Syracuse, Eib Lake in Bavarian Alps, New Pinakothek, Munich; View of Kochel Lake, The High Göll in the Afterglow, Three Views in Greece, do. near Rome, Schack Gallery, ib.; Sunset near Epidauros, The Hintersee near Berchtesgaden, Stuttgart Museum; Landscape, Czernin Gallery, Vienna. In fresco: 28 Landscapes in Italy (1830-33), Arcades, Munich; cartoons for them, Darmstadt Museum.—Bayersdorfer, C. Rottmann; Ch. Blanc, École allemande; Dioskuren (1873), 227; Förster, v. 205; Graph. K., v. 1; Jordan (1885), ii. 198; Kugler, Kl. Schriften, iii. 130; Kunst-Chronik, viii. 176, 217; x. 392; Nagler, xiii. 473; Pecht, ii. 3; Reber, ii. 268; Regnet, ii. 100; Schack, Meine Gemäldesammlung (1884), 206; Springer, Gesch., 83; Zeitschr. f. b. K., iv. 7, 72, 207.

ROTTMANN, LEOPOLD, born at Heidelberg, Oct. 2, 1812, died at Munich, March 26, 1881. Landscape painter, brother of preceding, pupil of Roux at Heidelberg, then of his brother and the Academy in Munich, where he also became court painter. Works: Altenau Lake in Styria (1837), Fürstenberg Gallery, Donaueschingen; Mountain Landscape, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Barm Lake near Partenkirchen, Bavaria, New Pinakothek, Munich; Hunting Album for King Maximilian II. (50 water-colours, 1854-57); Album of Bavarian Alps (70 water-colours, 1860-65); Swiss Album; Album of Wagner's Music Dramas.—Kunst-Chronik, xvi. 489; Nagler, xiii. 478.

ROTTMAYR (Rothmeyer) VON ROSENBRUNN, JOHANN MICHAEL, born at Laufen, near Salzburg, about 1660, died in Vienna, Oct. 25, 1730. German school; history painter, studied in Salzburg and