Johann Martin Rohden - Artist Info

About Johann Martin Rohden

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    Johann Martin von Rohden was born 1778 in Kassel. He was a German landscape painter and studied painting in Kassel until 1795. He then moved to Rome and returned to Germany for a short period during the Second Coalition War. In 1802 he received an annual prize from the art magazine Propyläen.

    Martin von Rohden was back in Rome from 1802-11, and joined the circle of German Romans around the neoclassicists Joseph Anton Koch and Johann Christian Reinhart. In 1805 he had a trip to Sicily, in 1827 he was appointed back to Kassel as court painter. In 1829 he took a leave of absence and returned to Rome, where he produced further paintings for the Elector. From 1831, Martin von Rohden received a fixed annual salary, even after his re...

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