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Karl Friedrich Lessing

German, 1808–1880

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Breslau, Poland

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Karl Friedrich Lessing, also known by Carl Friedrich Lessing, was a German historical and landscape painter, grandnephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and one of the main exponents of the Düsseldorf school of painting.

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Artworks (20)

Mountain landscape with three riders

1874 · oil paint

Scenery with farmhouse

1870

Landscape with a pilgrim

1866

Landscape from the Rhine

1859 · oil paint

Riflemen Defending a Pass

1851 · oil paint

The Siege (Defense of a Church Courtyard During the Thirty Years’ War)

1848 · oil paint

Bird shooting by the Düsseldorf artists in the Grafenberg Forest

Chapel on the Edge of the Wood

1839 · oil paint

The Thousand-Year-Old Oak

Landscape in the Eifel Mountains (detail).

1834 · oil paint

The Robber and His Child

1832 · oil paint

Rocky Landscape: Gorge with Ruins

1830

Royal Couple Mourning for their Dead Daughter

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Chapel on the Edge of the Wood
1839 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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The Thousand-Year-Old Oak
1837 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Landscape in the Eifel Mountains (detail).
1834 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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The Siege (Defense of a Church Courtyard During the Thirty Years’ War)
1848 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Landscape with Crows
1830 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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The Eifel Landscape
1839 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Riflemen Defending a Pass
1851 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Mountain landscape with three riders
1874 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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The Robber and His Child
1832 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Knight's castle
1828 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Prussian Academy of Arts

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