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Carl Friedrich Lessing
German Painter, 1808-1880,Painter, great-nephew of GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING. He studied architecture in Berlin at the Kenigliche Bau-Akademie under Karl Friedrich Schinkel, before transferring to the Kunstakademie, where he became a pupil of Wilhelm Schadow in 1825. The next year Lessing followed Schadow to Desseldorf, where the latter had been appointed Director of the Kunstakademie. Almost to the end of his career Lessing was to follow Schadow's rules for a standard series of procedures in the production of a finished work: compositional sketch, oil study, detailed model study, cartoon and underdrawing for the final painting. Without an official position, Lessing worked at the Desseldorf Akademie until 1858 Related Paintings of Carl Friedrich Lessing :. | The Flower Basket | Young lady with a Bird and dog | Manoa Valley from Waikiki | Self-Portrait | Portrait of a Bride with Flowers | Related Artists: Frank Vizetelly1830-1883 Christian BerentzGerman, 1658-1722 John Liston Byam Shaw1872-1919
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