Johann Martin von Rohden [SEP] place of death
Johann Martin von Rohden
Johann Martin von Rohden (b Kassel, 30 July 1778; d Rome, 9 September 1868) was a German painter active for most of his career in Rome.
Life and work.
Son of a merchant, von Rohden began his studies at the Kunstakademie in Kassel, remaining there until 1795. At seventeen he went to Rome with a friend who had won a travel grant for artists from the Landgrave of Hesse. There he met and studied with Johann Christian Reinhart. In 1799 he
Scene of an Arctic Sea, with a Wrecked Ship on the Heaped Masses of Ice".
In Friedrich's estate this work was described as "Ice Picture. The Disaster-stricken North Pole Expedition".
History.
The collector Johann Gottlob von Quandt commissioned two pictures that were to symbolize the south and the north. Johann Martin von Rohden received the commission to paint "Southern Nature in her Abundant and Majestic Splendor", while the commission for "Northern Nature in the whole of her Terrifying Beauty" fell