Karl Ross
{{Short description|German painter (1816–1858)}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Karl Ross
| image = Charles Ross - Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion.png
| caption = Painting of the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion by Ross, {{circa|1840}}.
| alt = Painting of a Greek landscape
| birth_name = Charles Ross
| birth_date = {{birth date|1816|11|15}}
| birth_place = Ruhwinkel, Duchy of Holstein
| death_date = {{death date and age|1858|02|05|1816|11|15}}
| death_place = Munich
| resting_place = Bornhöved
| education = Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
| known_for = Landscape painting
| notable_works = {{unbulleted list
| {{lang|de|Das Thal des Eurotas mit dem Taygetos}} (1845)
| Naxos (1855)
| {{lang|de|Mondnacht am Cap Sunium mit Ruinen des Minervatempels}} (1855)
| {{lang|de|Ansicht der Grotte und des Hains der Nymphe Egeria bei Rom}} (1856)
| {{lang|de|Der Tempel von Phigalia in Arkadien}} (1858)
}}
| spouse = {{marriage |Helene Abendroth |1847}}
}}
Karl Ross (15 November 1816 – 5 February 1858) (also known as Charles) was a German painter. He is most known for his paintings of classical landscapes. He was the brother of the classical archaeologist Ludwig Ross, and executed several of his paintings during travels with Ludwig and other companions throughout Greece.
Ross was a citizen of the Duchy of Holstein, ruled by Denmark. He was trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where he was academically distinguished, and later travelled for further study to Munich, Rome and Paris. He briefly took a political role as a representative of the revolutionary government of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenberg during their attempted rebellion against Danish rule in 1848. Affected by ill health for most of his life, he died of typhus in Munich in 1858.
Biography
Ross was born in Ruhwinkel,{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=243}} Holstein, then ruled by the Kingdom of Denmark.{{sfn|Dyson|2008|p=74}} His paternal grandfather, a doctor, had moved from northern Scotland to Hamburg around 1750;{{sfn|The Spectator Supplement, 27 March 1863|p=19}} his father, Colin Ross, married Juliane Auguste Remin{{sfn|Jahn|1863|p=vii}} and moved in 1810 to the Gut Altekoppel estate in Bornhöved, which he managed and later acquired.{{sfn|Minner|2006|p=32}} Karl Ross was the brother of Ludwig Ross, the classical archaeologist and Ephor General of Archaeology of Greece.{{sfn|Dyson|2008|p=74}}
In 1832, Ross travelled to Copenhagen, where he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts until 1834.{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=243}} Among his teachers were Johan Ludwig Lund and Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=243}} He was awarded an academic prize while at the academy, and sold several oil paintings to prince Christian Frederick, the future Christian VIII.{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=243}}
Ross's elder brother, Ludwig, who was then head of the Greek Archaeological Service, invited him to Greece in 1837.{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=243}} Throughout 1837–1839, he travelled through Greece, variously with his brother Ludwig and other central-European expatriates.{{sfn|Goette|2015|p=219}} He made a journey through Attica to Marathon in 1837 with Ludwig and Ernst Curtius, the future excavator of Olympia.{{sfn|Goette|2015|p=219}} He also stayed with Adolf von Shack near Sparta, travelling and painting, and travelled with von Shack to the ancient sites of Ephesus, Magnesia and Smyrna.{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=244}}
Returning to Germany in 1839, Ross travelled to Munich in the August of that year.{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=244}} From November 1842 until late 1843 he lived in Rome, where he befriended the Austrian painter Carl Rahl.{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=244}} However, his visit was cut short by ill health, and he returned for convalescence to his family estate at Gut Altekoppel.{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=244}} He studied in Paris during 1845.{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=244}}
{{multiple image
| total_width = 400
| image1 = Charles_Ross_-_Apollo_at_Kolonna.png
| alt1 = Painting of a Greek temple
| image2 = Charles_Ross_-_Athens_from_the_Lykabettos.png
| alt2 = Painting of a Greek landscape
| footer = Two 1840 paintings by Ross showing subjects from his travels in Greece: the Temple of Apollo at Kolonna on Aegina (left) and a view of Athens from Mount Lycabettus
}}
During the attempted uprising against Denmark in 1848, the provisional government of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenberg sent Ross to Berlin, with a mission of reporting news from the revolt to the Duke of Augustenborg and negotiating assistance from Frederick William IV of Prussia.{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=245}} He took part in meetings of the Provisional Government during April 1848, but played no further part in politics.{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=245}} At the end of the war, he travelled to Munich and then to Rome, after which he settled permanently in Munich from 1851.{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=245}} He is known to have owned Portrait of a Carthusian, a 1446 painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Petrus Christus, until 1854; the painting's ownership history is otherwise unknown until its acquisition by the National Gallery of London in 1857.{{sfn|Russell|2020|loc=chapter 7, "Léal Souvenir"}} Artistically, he is most known for his paintings of classical landscapes.{{sfn|Gramm-Lausen|2000}}
Personal life and death
File:Ross_Grab.jpg in Bornhöved|alt=Photograph of three graves; two standing, one small, square one on the ground.]]
In 1847, Ross married Helene Abendroth, then aged twenty, whom he had met and taught during his time in Rome.{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=244}} She was the daughter of August Abendroth, who had supported Ross's art career, encouraged his studies abroad and bought many of his paintings.{{sfn|Gramm-Lausen|2000|pp=36–38}}
Ross was affected by ill health throughout his life.{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=243}} He died of typhus on February 5, 1858, in Munich, and was buried in Bornhöved.{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=246}} The author Hermann Lingg wrote his obituary.{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=246}} His wife Helene outlived him, dying in 1911.{{sfn|Von Donop|1889|p=244}}
Selected works
{{Commons|Category: Charles Ross}}{{Gallery|width=160|height=170|align=center|File:Carl (Charles) Ross - Die Grotte der Nymphe Egeria bei Rom - 11590 - Bavarian State Painting Collections.jpg|{{lang|de|Die Grotte der Nymphe Egeria bei Rom|italic=no}}, 1856|alt1=Painting by Charles Ross|File:Charles Ross - Valpladsen ved Marathon, i baggrunden Euboea med bjerget Oche - KMS439 - Statens Museum for Kunst.jpg|View of Euboea from Marathon, with Mount Ochi in the background, {{circa}} 1837–1839|alt2=Painting by Charles Ross}}
References
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Bibliography
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- {{Cite ADB|29|243|246|Roß, Karl|von Donop, Lionel|ADB:Roß, Ludwig|ref={{harvid|Von Donop|1889}}}}
- {{cite book |last=Dyson |first=Stephen L. |title=In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts: A History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2008 |isbn=9780300134971 |place=New Haven}}
- {{cite book |last=Goette |first=Hans Rupprecht |title=Ludwig Ross und Griechenland: Acten sws Internationalen Kolloquiums, Athen, 2–3. Oktober 2002 |publisher=Marie Leidorf |year=2015 |isbn=978-3-89646-424-8 |editor-last1=Goette |editor-first1=Hans Rupprecht |editor-link1=Hans Rupprecht Goette |place=Rahden |pages=219–232 |chapter=Ludwig Ross in Attica und auf Aegina |author-link=Hans Rupprecht Goette |editor-last2=Palagia |editor-first2=Olga |editor-link2=Olga Palagia}}
- {{cite book |last=Gramm-Lausen |first=H. |title=Charles Roß 1816-1858. Ein Landschaftsmaler des 19. Jahrhunderts. Bau + Kunst |year=2000 |place=Kiel}}
- {{cite book|contributor-last=Jahn|contributor-first=Otto|contributor-link=Otto Jahn|year=1863|contribution=Vorwort|title=Erinnerungen und Mittheilungen aus Griechenland|author-last=Ross|author-first=Ludwig|pages=i–xxx|place=Berlin|publisher=Verlag von Rudolf Gaertner}}
- {{cite book|last=Minner|first=Ina E.|year=2006|title=Ewig ein Fremder im fremden Lande – Ludwig Ross (1806–1859) und Griechenland. Biographie|publisher=Bibliopolis|place=Möhnesee-Wamel|isbn=3-933925-82-7}}
- {{cite book| last=Russell| first=Peter| year=2020| title=Masters of Art: Jan van Eyck|via=Google Books | publisher=Delphi Classics| isbn=978-1-913487-28-7| access-date=2023-08-29| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h6_1DwAAQBAJ}}
- {{cite magazine |author= |title=Greece and the Greeks |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DgA4AQAAMAAJ|magazine=The Spectator Supplement |location=London |date= 27 March 1863|access-date=2022-12-24|ref = {{harvid|The Spectator Supplement, 27 March 1863}}|via=Google Books}}
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