Karl Friedrich Lessing

Karl Friedrich Lessing
Karl Friedrich Lessing in a photograph by the firm G. & A. Overbeck (c. 1868)
Born
Karl Friedrich Lessing

15 February 1808
Died4 January 1880
NationalityGerman

Karl Friedrich Lessing, also known by Carl Friedrich Lessing (15 February 1808, Breslau – 4 January 1880, Karlsruhe), was a German historical and landscape painter, grandnephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing[1] and one of the main exponents of the Düsseldorf school of painting.

  1. ^ Atkinson, J. Beavington (September 1865). "German Painters of the Modern School. No. VIII.—Karl Friedrich Lessing". The Art Journal: 261–265.