Ascan Lutteroth

Ascan Lutteroth (5 October 1842 – 2 February 1923) was a German landscape painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

Biography He was born in Hamburg. His grandfather, , was a merchant and served in the Hamburg Parliament as a Senator.. His father, Christian Alexander Ascan Lutteroth (1812–1867), was a prominent banker. From 1861, he studied with Alexandre Calame in Geneva then, from 1864 to 1867, with Oswald Achenbach at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

He lived in Italy from 1868 to 1870, mostly on Capri, then moved to Berlin. In 1872, he married Elisabeth Warnecke (1851–1932), the daughter of , a merchant and politician like his grandfather. He returned to Hamburg in 1877, where he was awarded a commission to paint three large pictures for the Town Hall.

In 1879, Lutteroth paid a lengthy visit to San Remo. While there, he served as a tutor for Crown Princess Victoria, who was an amateur painter. Most of his best known earlier landscapes are of Italy.

In 1890, Kaiser Wilhelm II named Lutteroth a Professor. After that, he confined his painting to the area around Hamburg. Until 1909, he was Chairman of the .

He was represented at numerous international exhibitions. His works were acquired by the National Gallery (Berlin) and the Rudolfinum in Prague, but are not currently on display; placed in storage in favor of more modern works. They may still be seen at the Kunsthalle Hamburg and the , among other smaller venues. In 2019, his works were part of an exhibit at the Kunsthalle: Hamburger Schule – Das 19. Jahrhundert neu entdeckt (The 19th Century rediscovered).

Lutteroth died in 1923 in Hamburg and is interred at his family's gravesite at the Ohlsdorfer Friedhof.