Carl Rodeck

Carl Rodeck (13 September 1841 – 14 April 1909) was a German landscape, marine and portrait painter.

From 1863 to 1866, he studied under Arnold Böcklin, Ferdinand Pauwels and Alexander Michelis at the Weimar Saxon Grand Ducal Art School.

He portrayed the German forest, the landscape of the Lower Elbe and the old harbor neighborhood of Hamburg and was constantly on the road with a sketch pad or easel.

Together with his friend Carl Oesterley he visited the Netherlands, Belgium and England, where he had relatives by marriage.

)[2] As a further source of income he gave private lessons in drawing and painting for young women from Hamburg's upper classes.

Frühling im Walde
(Spring in the forest)
Gebäude der Patriotischen Gesellschaft
(Building of the Patriotic Society), 1897, Hamburg Rathaus