"Carlotto" redirects here. For other uses, see Carlotto (name).
Johann Carl Loth, lithograph from the Deutsche Künstler-Gallerie by Maximilian FranckAllegory of Victory, sanguine
Johann Carl Loth (Baptized 8 August 1632 – 6 October 1698) was a German Baroque painter who spent most of his life in Venice. His name is also rendered as Johann Karl, Karel and, in Italy, Carlotto or Carlo Lotti.[1]
He specialized in history paintings; generally crowded group scenes. His subjects were typically from classical mythology or the Old Testament.
He was the son and pupil of Johann Ulrich Loth [de][1] and was possibly influenced by Giovan Battista Langetti. He was once commissioned to paint for the emperor Leopold I in Vienna and worked together with Pietro Liberi in Venice, where he lived from 1663 until his death in 1698.[1] His brother Franz (1639–1710) was also a painter in Venice and Germany and often collaborated with Carl.
Isaac Blessing Jacob is on long-term loan to the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, having recently been reclaimed by the Bloch family, originally from Brno, Czechoslovakia.
In 2023 a Loth painting that had been looted by the Nazis was found after a search of more than 80 years by the family of Jewish Czech industrialist Johann Bloch. Changes in the title and attribution had made the search particularly difficult.[5][6][7]
