Karl Friedrich Rumohr

Karl Friedrich Rumohr (1785–1843) was an art historian.

Rumohr was born in Dresden. He became a Catholic in 1804. A rich man, he visited Italy frequently, and was, despite his reportedly irritable temperament, a guest of Frederick William IV of Prussia and Christian VIII of Denmark. When he died at Breslau, the latter built a monument in his honour.

Publications

*"Italienische Forschungen" (Italian Research; 3 vols., 182-31), which dealt with the Umbrian-Tuscan School of painting.
*Works on the rural condition of Central and Upper Italy.
*"Drei Reisen nach Italien".
*"Hans Holbein der Jungere in seinem Verhältnis zum deutschen Formschnittwesen"
*"Zur Geschichte und Theorie der Formschneidekunst"
*"Geschichte der königlichen Kupferstichsammlung zu Kopenhagen"
*"Novellen"
*"Deutsche Denkwürdigkeiten" (4 vols.)
*"Hunde-Füchsestreit" (Kynalopekomachie) and "Schule der Höflichkeit" (School of Courtesy), which are written in a humorous vein.
*"Geist der Kochkunst" (The spirit of cookery) also extended his fame and popularity.

ources

*Biography by SCHULZ (Leipzig, 1844);
*POEL in "Allg. Deutsche Biogr.", XXIX.
*Catholic|Karl Friedrich Rumohr