Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808 - 1880)

Karl Friedrich Lessing

Karl Friedrich Lessing was a German painter of the mid-nineteenth century. He is known as a Romantic painter, a representative of the Düsseldorf School of painting.

Lessing began his career with melancholic-romantic landscapes and paintings on literary subjects. He later gained popularity as a landscape painter. Reproductions of his works were widely printed in German magazines of the XIX century. Later Lessing switched to historical subjects, creating historical paintings, as well as frescoes.

Lessing was a member of various art societies and academies, both German and foreign.