Gallery of the Masters 
Karl Friedrich Lessing
1808-1880 Germany/Romanticism
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Brief Biography-Karl Friedrich Lessing, the German Historical painter, began his studies with Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the Berlin architect and painter. In 1825, he studied under Wilhelm Schadow, and they both went on to the Kunst Akademie in Düsseldorf. Lessing became a fellow of the Berlin Academy, where his work held him in high esteem. In 1858, he gained the Directorship of the Grossherzogliche Gemäldegalerie, the Grand Ducal Picture Gallery, in Karlsruhe. The paintings of Caspar David Friedrich had a strong influence on Lessing. |
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castle in
a landscape
castle on hill
cemetery
chapel on the edge
of the wood
hussite sermon
johann hus at the
constance council
landscape in the
eifel mountains
landscape with
castle ruins
landscape with
monastery
monastery in
the snow
riflemen defending
a pass
ritterburg
royal couple
mourning
silesian landscape
sunday church
the millennial
oak
the robber and
his child
the siege
