• Was a German Baroque painter. • He spent most of his life in Venice. • His name is also rendered as Johann Karl, Karel and, in Italy, Carlotto or Carlo Lotti. • He specialized in history paintings; generally crowded group scenes. • His subjects were typically from classical mythology or the Old Testament. • He had numerous pupils, including Michael Wenzel Halbax, Santo Prunati, Johann Michael Rottmayr, Hans Adam Weissenkircher, Daniel Seiter, and Baron Peter Strudel. • Next
Attributed to Johann Carl Loth, Old Peasant Lighting a Pipe, c. 1660
Original, Art Institute of Chicago. Visited in 2019.
Attributed to Johann Carl Loth, Old Peasant Lighting a Pipe, c. 1660