Carl Johan Albrecht Løffler (23 July 1810 – 28 July 1853) was a Danish decorative painter who died in the 1853 Copenhagen cholera outbreak.
Early life and education
Løffler was born in Copenhagen, the son of building painter Johan Carl Albrecht Løffler (1778–1835) and Martha Marie Dorothea, née Fiedler (1787–1867). He apprenticed as a painter while attending the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1825. In 1836, he became a pupil of the model school and won the small silver medal. The following year, he became a master painter with distinction, completing his apprenticeship.
Career
In 1838, Løffler decorated four rooms in Pompeian style for merchant Hans Puggaard and one room for professor N.C.L. Abrahams. He later received a stipend from the Academy to study the excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii in Italy. After returning to Denmark in January 1842, he also took up glass painting. In 1845, he competed for the Neuhausen Prize with an example of this genre. He was commissioned to create two glass paintings for Christian IV's Chapel at Roskilde Cathedral, which were later installed in Frederiksborg Chapel behind the smaller of the two organs.
In 1846, Løffler succeeded Peter Kongslev as a teacher at the Academy's ornamentation school. In 1852, he also took over the position of heraldic painter at Ordenskapitlet from Ole Larsen.
Personal life
On 23 November 1832, Løffler married Wilhelmine Louise Ludovika Hacke (1810–1900), the daughter of customs officer Johann Julius Ludvig Hacke and Jacobine Christine, née Ging. In 1852–53, he commissioned the construction of a property at Nybrogade 22 in Copenhagen. He died of cholera on 28 July 1853, becoming one of approximately 4,800 victims of the 1853 Copenhagen cholera outbreak. He is buried in Assistens Cemetery.
Note: The name "Carl Løffler" may also refer to other individuals, including Carl A. Loeffler (1873–1968), an American congressional administrator who served as Secretary of the United States Senate from 1947 to 1949, and Carl E. Loeffler (1946–2001), an American artist and publisher who founded La Mamelle/Art Com in San Francisco.
