{{short description|German painter (1819–1863)}}
'''Carl (Karl) Adloff''' (12 January 1819 – 16 April 1863) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting.
== Life == Born in Düsseldorf, Adloff was the child of Franz Joseph Adloff (1786–1832) and Anna Margaretha Adloff, ''née'' Kaimer (1784–1846). From 1833 to 1843, he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where in 1836 he took the class of Landschaftsmaler under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer.<ref>{{Ill|Rudolf Theilmann|de}}: ''Die Schülerlisten der Landschaftsklassen von Schirmer bis Dücker''. In {{Ill|Wend von Kalnein|de}} (ed.): ''Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule'', Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, {{ISBN|3-8053-0409-9}}, {{p.|144}}</ref> and attended the architecture class under Rudolf Wiegmann in 1840/1841. In the student lists of the Meisterklasse, he was listed as an architectural and landscape painter from 1840 to 1843. In his choice of motifs, he favoured – following the Dutch Golden Age painting – the Dutch landscape; he created beach, harbour, canal and city views, whose architecture he captured in detail and in a fine painting style. He often painted seascapes, which are bathed in a romantic mood of tranquillity by moonlight, morning and evening light. He was repeatedly represented at academic art exhibitions in Germany and abroad. Adloff was a member of the Malkasten.
Adloff married Adelheid Schmitz (1820–1893), who gave birth to his daughter Sybilla Carolina in 1850. They lived at Pfannenschoppenstraße 239 (today Klosterstraße in Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte) – in the house where Alwine and Adolph Schroedter had lived before they went to Karlsruhe.<ref>C. E. Lehmann (ed.): ''Wohnungs-Anzeiger und Adreßbuch der Oberbürgermeisterei Düsseldorf pro 1850''. Selbstverlag, {{p.|2}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=oM1W30dLvpEC&dq=Adloff+D%C3%BCsseldorf&pg=PA2 online])</ref><ref>[http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ihd/periodical/pageview/8435575?query=Pfannenschoppenstr. Schroeder, Adolph, Maler, Pfannenschoppenstr. 239], in Adreß-Kalender und Wohnungs-Anzeiger der Stadt Düsseldorf und der Vorstädte, 1847, {{p.|137}}</ref> Sybilla Carolina became the wife of the animal painter {{Ill|Carl Jutz|de}} in 1868.<ref>Vgl. Abschnitt ''Weitere Grabsteine (260)'' on the [http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Golzheimer_Friedhof ''Golzheimer Friedhof''] website in Portal ''wiki-de.genealogy.net'', retrieved 12 September 2021</ref> and 1873 mother of the later landscape painter Carl Ernst Bernhard Jutz.
Adloff died in Düsseldorf at the age of 44 and was buried at {{Ill|Golzheimer Friedhof|de}} (southern part).
== Work == [[File:Carl Adloff Burgruinen.jpg|thumb|{{center|''Burgruine'', the Schlossturm Düsseldorf, ca. 1840}}]] * ''Burgruine'', ca. 1840 * ''Holländischer Kanal'', 1841 * ''Hafenpartie bei Amsterdam'', 1846 * ''Winteransicht von Dordrecht'', 1849 * ''Landungsplatz in Dordrecht'', 1851 * ''Ansicht von Ehrenbreitstein und Koblenz'', 1854 * ''Seehafen im Sonnenlicht'', 1857 * ''Morgen an der Zuiderzee'', 1861, Museum Kunstpalast<ref>Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): ''Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819–1918'', vol. 2, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, {{ISBN|978-3-86568-702-9}}, {{p.|352}} (catalogue Nr. 291)</ref> * ''Fluss, mit Booten und Schiffen'', 1861<ref>[http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O122946/river-with-boats-and-shipping-oil-painting-adloff-karl/ ''River, with boats and shipping''], website in Portal ''collections.vam.ac.uk'', retrieved 12 September 2021</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== Further reading == * Rudolf Wiegmann: ''Die Königliche Kunst-Akademie zu Düsseldorf'', Buddeus Verlag, Düsseldorf 1856, {{p.|368}}. * Julius Meyer: "Karl Adloff". In Julius Meyer, Georg Kaspar Nagler: ''Neues Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon'', first vol., Verlag Wilhelm von Engelmann, Leipzig 1872, {{p.|84}}. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=QQBWAAAAcAAJ&dq=Carl+Adloff+Maler&pg=PA84 Online]). * Hermann Board: "Adloff, Karl". In Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (ed.): ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart''. Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Vol. 1: Aa–Antonio de Miraguel. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, {{p.|86}} ([https://archive.org/details/allgemeineslexi01vollgoog/page/n103/mode/1up Textarchiv – Internet Archive]). * Hans Wolfgang Singer (ed.): ''Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon''. First volume, Fifth unaltered edition, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt, 1921, {{p.|8}} ([http://archive.org/stream/allgemeineskns11ml/allgemeineskns11ml_djvu.txt Numerized]). * Martin Faass, Felix Krämer, Uwe M. Schneede (ed.): ''Seestücke. Von Caspar David Friedrich bis Emil Nolde''. Prestel Verlag, Munich 2005, {{ISBN|3-7913-3486-7}}, {{p.|139}}.
== External links == {{Commons category|Carl Adloff}} * [http://www.stiftung-volmer.de/main.php?g2_itemId=2546 ''Adloff, Carl''], short biography at ''stiftung-volmer.de'' * [http://www.artnet.com/artists/karl-adloff/past-auction-results ''Karl Adloff''], Auktionsresultate im Portal ''artnet.com'' * [http://www.arcadja.com/auctions/de/adloff_karl/kunstler/173892/ ''Karl Adloff''], Auktionsresultate im Portal ''arcadja.com''
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Adloff, Carl}} Category:19th-century German painters Category:19th-century German male artists Category:German landscape painters Category:German marine artists Category:1819 births Category:1863 deaths Category:Painters from Düsseldorf