Carl Rechlin (1802 - 1875)

Carl Rechlin

Carl Rechlin was a German painter of the mid-nineteenth century. He is known as a battalist and genre painter who created a number of paintings on military themes commissioned by the Prussian royal family and the Russian imperial court.

Among the commissioned works, Rechlin created a painting commemorating the opening of the Alexander Column in St. Petersburg, which he himself observed in 1834. Another important work was dedicated to the parade in Kalisz and depicted the scene of maneuvers conducted by Prussia and Russia in 1835. In 2013, Russia issued a commemorative stamp depicting Rechlin's painting "The Attack of the Life Guards at Leipzig on October 4, 1813" in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig.