Carl Götzloff

From 1814 to 1821, he attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under Caspar David Friedrich and Johan Christian Dahl, among others.

A scholarship enabled him to undertake a study trip throughout Germany and Switzerland, eventually travelling to Rome with fellow-student Anton Josef Dräger.

Towards the end of that year, he accompanied Baron Karl Friedrich Emich von Uexküll [de], an art collector, on a trip to Sicily and Malta.

As it turned out, the Baron and his family became Götzloff's employers and he relocated permanently to Naples in 1825,[1] where he shared an apartment with Antonie Sminck Pitloo, Giacinto Gigante and Teodoro Duclère.

In 1848, he and his family moved to Sorrento to escape the political unrest, which also forced him to seek employment in Berlin with help from his friend August Kestner.