Salomon Corrodi
Photograph of Salomon Corrodi c. 1890
Salomon Corrodi (23 April 1810 – July 4, 1892) was a Swiss-Italian painter, mainly of watercolor landscapes.[1]
Biography
He was born in Zurich, the son of an Italian Protestant preacher living in Switzerland.[2] Two of his sons, Ermanno and Arnaldo, were also painters. A collection of his vedute has been published.[3] He trained with Johann Jakob Wetzel, and came to Rome in 1832, along with the fellow pupil Jakob Suter (1805–1874). In Rome, he was influenced by the circle of Neoclassical artists around Bertel Thorvaldsen[4] He died in Como, Italy.
Notes
- Rocky Landscape (attributed to Corrodi).]
References
- ↑ Garollo, Gottardo (1907). Ulrico Hoepli, ed. Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p. 583.
- ↑ Istituto Matteucci biography.
- ↑ Il Grand Tour nelle vedute italiane di Salomon Corrodi, pittore svizzero, 1810-1892.
- ↑ From notes regarding a watercolor of the Villa d'Este in Tivoli at www.tibursuperbum.it.
External links
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- Works by or about Salomon Corrodi at Internet Archive
- Salomon Corrodi in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
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