
Old Man Lighting a Pipe
Johann Carl Loth

Baroque Painter · Active 1655 – 1655
Johann Carl Loth is among the painters whose work defines the Baroque era. Paintale holds 1 of Loth's works in its collection, spanning themes of love & romance.
Where to see the work: Art Institute of Chicago.
Working at the height of the Baroque period, Johann Carl Loth produced a body of work that remains foundational to Western art. The recurring themes across the surviving paintings — love & romance — show an artist returning to the same questions about the human figure, light, and the moral weight of a scene that Baroque painting was uniquely equipped to answer.
Johann Carl Loth's paintings have found permanent homes at institutions such as Art Institute of Chicago. Every entry on Paintale digs into how each piece was made, what it depicts, and how it has been read and re-read since it left the studio.
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