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Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen (29 July 1798 – 23 July 1840) was a German landscape painter and a professor at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. His distinctive style was characteristic of the Romantic ideals of natural beauty .
Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen (29 July 1798, Cottbus – 23 July 1840, Berlin) was a German landscape painter and a Professor at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. His distinctive style was characteristic of the Romantic ideals of natural beauty. His father was a minor tax official from Regensburg.
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Carl Blechen. 1798 - 1840. Image: Karl Blechen, 'Self Portrai’, 1823, Berlin, Galerie der Romantik © akg-images. Blechen gave up a job in a bank to become an artist in 1820, entering the Academy in Berlin to study landscape. Late in 1828 he set out for Italy, where he spent nine months with the community of German artists in Rome and painted ...
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Artworks. See all 4 artworks ›. The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam, 1834. Carl Blechen. Church and Graveyard in the Snow by Moonlight, 1827. Carl Blechen. Pilgrim in the Woods, 1825. Carl Blechen. Ruins of a Castle, 1825/27.
The sights and atmospherics of Italy proved an inspiration and he worked outdoors making drawings and oil sketches to be turned into fully fledged paintings in the studio. Blechen, said the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow – the man responsible for the chariot and horses on top of the Brandenburg Gate – was an “unrivalled sketcher”.
Throughout his career, Carl Blechen often returned to the theme of a pilgrim at a shrine in the woods. In this depiction, the religious shrine, trees, and dark landscape loom over the praying pilgrim, producing a melancholic mood. The emotional tenor of the scene is further enhanced by the lithograph’s pale green tint.
Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen (29 July 1798 – 23 July 1840) was a German landscape painter and a professor at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. His distinctive style was characteristic of the Romantic ideals of natural beauty.
Jul 29, 1798 - Jul 23, 1840. Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen was a German landscape painter and a Professor at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. His distinctive style was characteristic of the Romantic ideals of natural beauty.