Karl Friedrich Lessing

1808–1880 · Kingdom of Prussia

Karl Friedrich Lessing, also known by Carl Friedrich Lessing (15 February 1808 – 4 January 1880), was a German historical and landscape painter, grandnephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and one of the main exponents of the Düsseldorf school of painting. Wikipedia

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Works

“Royal Couple Mourning for their Dead Daughter”, 1830 — Hermitage Museum
“The Hussite Sermon”, 1836 — Alte Nationalgalerie
“Knight's castle”, 1828 — Alte Nationalgalerie
“Chapel on the Edge of the Wood”, 1839 — Alte Nationalgalerie
“Riflemen Defending a Pass”, 1851 — Alte Nationalgalerie
“The Thousand-Year-Old Oak”, 1837 — Städel Museum
“Jan Hus at Constance”, 1842 — Städel Museum
“The Siege (Defense of a Church Courtyard During the Thirty Years’ War)”, 1848 — Museum Kunstpalast
“The Robber and His Child”, 1832 — Philadelphia Museum of Art
“Bird shooting by the Düsseldorf artists in the Grafenberg Forest”, 1842 — New York Historical
“Scenery with farmhouse”, 1870 — Art collection of the Federal Republic of Germany
“Mountain landscape with three riders”, 1874 — Bundesdenkmalamt
“The Eifel Landscape”, 1839 — Art Museum Riga Bourse
“Landscape with Crows”, 1830 — Los Angeles County Museum of Art
“Landscape in the Eifel Mountains (detail).”, 1834 — National Museum in Warsaw
“Landscape from the Rhine”, 1859 — National Museum
“Landscape”, 1835 — Städel Museum
“Rocky Landscape: Gorge with Ruins”, 1830 — Städel Museum
“Rocky Landscape in Evening Light”, 1835
“Silesian Landscape”, 1841 — Alte Nationalgalerie
“Landscape with a pilgrim”, 1866 — Art collection of the Federal Republic of Germany
“Jan Hus facing the council of Constance”, 1839 — Art Museum Riga Bourse
“Landscape with Castle Ruins and Riders”, 1878 — National Museum in Wrocław
“Crusader's Vigil”, 1836 — Städel Museum