Carl Friedrich Lessing
(1808–1880) tysk målare
Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Carl Friedrich Lessing belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.
Carl Friedrich Lessing was born in Wrocław and died in Karlsruhe. Carl Friedrich Lessing trained at Prussian Academy of Arts and Bauakademie. The teachers included Heinrich Anton Dähling and Samuel Rösel. Carl Friedrich Lessing worked in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Karlsruhe. The awards include Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order and Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. The students included Peter Bücken, Elisabeth Baumann, and Konrad Lessing.
The works belong mainly to the genre history painting. The catalogue has 24 works by Carl Friedrich Lessing with free images. The dated works span the years 1828–1878. Works by Carl Friedrich Lessing are held by several collections, among them Alte Nationalgalerie, Städel Museum, Art collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, and Konstmuseum Rigas Börs.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Cosroe Dusi, Aleksey Tyranov, Petrus Johannes Schotel, Ludwig Lange, and Gustav Jäger.