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Lotz, Károly
(b Homburg von der Höhe, 16 Dec 1833; d Budapest, 13 Oct 1904). Hungarian painter and teacher. He studied under the Italian painter Jakob Marastoni (1804–60) in Pest and then under the Hungarian painter Henrik Weber (1818–66). In 1852 he entered Carl Rahl’s private school in Vienna. He painted wall and ceiling frescoes for many of the Viennese palaces, based on the cartoons of his teacher. After returning to Hungary, as an accomplished academic painter he painted numerous genre paintings, the main theme of which was the Hungarian Plain, as in Storm on the Plain (1861; Budapest, N.G.). He also received many commissions to decorate private houses and public buildings. His chief works were the wall paintings (1874) for the stair-well at the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest and the ceilings (1882–4) for the Budapest Opera. His other commissions in Budapest include wall paintings for the Vigado Concert Hall, for the banqueting hall of the Hungarian National Academy of Sciences (1887–8) and for the Habsburg Hall in Buda Castle (1900; destr.). Most of his works conformed to the neo-Baroque and neo-Renaissance architectural styles of the period; he painted many allegorical compositions and had a gift for narrative and a light touch (e.g. Apotheosis of Budapest, 1883; Budapest, Divatcsarnok Dept. Store). Lotz also painted religious works, such as the Legend of St László (1880; Budapest, Matthias Church), as well as mythological scenes and portraits, among the best-known of which is Cornelia in a Black Dress (1895; Budapest, N.G.). In 1882 he taught at the High School of Drawing (later Academy of Fine Arts) in Budapest and in 1885 in the Women Painters’ School. In 1905 and 1933 retrospective exhibitions of his work were held in Budapest at the exhibition hall Mucsanok and at the Museum of Fine Arts.
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