![C.F. Lessing [facsimile signature.]](jpegs/16609.jpg)
C.F. Lessing [facsimile signature.]
gez von W. Camphausen. gedr bei W. Severin in Ddorf. [In the bottom left-hand corner of image:] WC.
[n.d. c.1845.]
Lithograph on india. Sheet 485 x 381mm. 19¼ x 15".
Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808-1880) was a German historical and landscape painter. He accompanied Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow to Düsseldorf, after completing his time at the Berlin Academy, and he continued his studies later occupying his place as director of the academy, exercising great influence on the Düsseldorf school. Here he stands in a room with two canvases representing a historical event and a topographical landscape. On both walls and on the cupboard hang varying sizes of antlers. He is loading a gun, one of many weapons in the chest.
[Ref: 16609] £180.00
[n.d. c.1845.]
Lithograph on india. Sheet 485 x 381mm. 19¼ x 15".
Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808-1880) was a German historical and landscape painter. He accompanied Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow to Düsseldorf, after completing his time at the Berlin Academy, and he continued his studies later occupying his place as director of the academy, exercising great influence on the Düsseldorf school. Here he stands in a room with two canvases representing a historical event and a topographical landscape. On both walls and on the cupboard hang varying sizes of antlers. He is loading a gun, one of many weapons in the chest.
[Ref: 16609] £180.00