Salomon Corrodi (23 April 1810 – July 4, 1892) was a Swiss-Italian painter, mainly of watercolor landscapes.
Biography He was born in Fehraltorf, the son of an Italian Protestant preacher living in Switzerland.Istituto Matteucci biography. Two of his sons, Hermann and Arnold, were also painters. A collection of his vedute has been published.Il Grand Tour nelle vedute italiane di Salomon Corrodi, pittore svizzero, 1810-1892. He trained with Johann Jakob Wetzel (1781-1834), and came to Rome in 1832, along with his fellow pupil Jakob Suter (1805–1874), after visiting Genoa and Pisa. In Rome, he was influenced by the circle of Neoclassical artists around Bertel ThorvaldsenFrom notes regarding a watercolor of the Villa d'Este in Tivoli at tibursuperbum.it. He died in Como, Italy.
Notes Rocky Landscape (attributed to Corrodi).
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