Carl Blechen
(1798–1840) German painter (1798–1840)
Carl Blechen (1798–1840) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, Carl Blechen belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.
Carl Blechen was born in Cottbus and died in Berlin. Carl Blechen worked in Berlin. The students included Ferdinand Bellermann and Heinrich Gätke.
The best-known works include ‘Weathered Tree Trunks in a Park’ and ‘Gorge near Amalfi’. The works belong mainly to the genre landscape painting. The catalogue has 95 works by Carl Blechen with free images. The dated works span the years 1820–1850. Works by Carl Blechen are held by several collections, among them Alte Nationalgalerie, Art collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, and Hamburger Kunsthalle. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Jules Coignet, Antonio Cabral Bejarano, Henry Scheffer, Eugène Delacroix, and Heinrich Maria von Hess.