Carl Friedrich Wendelstadt (1786 - 1840)
Carl Friedrich Wendelstadt
Carl Friedrich Wendelstadt was a German history and portrait painter, etcher, lithographer, glass painter, inspector and drawing teacher. Before 1809, Wendelstadt took drawing and painting lessons in Frankfurt a. M. and went to Paris from 1809 to 1813. There he was a student in the studio of Jacques-Louis David and at the École des beaux-arts. From 1813 he was a private drawing teacher in Frankfurt am Main. Around 1815 he was in charge of the art collection of the lawyer Johann Georg Grambs and from 1817 to 1840 he was inspector at the Städel Art Institute. From 1820 he taught drawing at the Städel Art Institute. In 1823 he traveled to Dresden and Munich. In 1828 he published the lithograph series "Outlines after old Italian and old German paintings owned by C. F. Wendelstadt".
| Date and place of birt: | 13 april 1786, Neuwied, Germany |
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| Date and place of death: | 17 september 1840, Gent, Belgium |
| Nationality: | Belgium, Germany |
| Period of activity: | XIX century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Painter, Portraitist |
| Genre: | History painting, Portrait, Religious genre |
| Art style: | Realism |
| Technique: | Engraving, Etching, Lithography |
