ITALY - VERONA - EDUARD MORITZ LOTZE 1809-1890 - Lot 208

ITALY - VERONA - EDUARD MORITZ LOTZE 1809-1890 Views of Verona, some animated, by Lotze, ca.1855-1860. Photographs. 9 albumin prints mounted on cardboard. Verona: men in top hats in the courtyard of the Palazzo della Ragione, Juliet's tomb in the cloister garden, man seated in front of the entrance to the Duomo, figures in the Piazza dei Signori in front of the Loggia del Consiglio, view of the Canons' cloister from the chapter library, Scaligeri tombs; Pistoia: carriage and men in front of the Ceppo hospital. Images: 18.3 x 24.4 cm to 26 x 31.8 cm; mounts: 23.7 x 29.7 cm to 29.8 x 40 cm A good landscape painter (Queen Victoria bought a painting from him), Lotze was introduced to photography by his brother-in-law, the painter and photographer Franz Hanfstaengl (1804-1877), in 1852. He set up his studio in Verona in 1854, where he was commissioned by the Italian government to photograph new buildings, including the railway line from Verona to Bolzano in 1856. He returned to Munich in the late 1860s.