Carl Georg Enslen
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Carl Georg Enslen (20 September 1792 – 17 April 1866) was an Austrian-born German painter.[1]
Biography[]
Enslen was born in Vienna in 1792,[1] and studied at the Academy of Berlin. He travelled in Italy, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark,[2] and his panoramas give proof of a knowledge of excellent linear and aerial perspective. He was the son of Johann Carl Enslen, with whom he worked closely. He died in Lille, France in 1866, aged 73.[1]
Collections[]
His work is included in the collections of the Swedish National Museum,[2] the Swiss National Museum, Zurich,[3] the City History Museum, Leipzig,[4] and the Sankt-Anne Museum in Lübeck, Germany.[5]
Gallery[]
Inner view of the Cologne Cathedral, 1838
Idealistic view of the Cologne Cathedral, 1839
Main square of Nuremberg, 1839
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Allgemeine deutsche Biographie: Elben - Fickler. 6 (in German). Duncker & Humblot. 1877.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Nationalmuseum - stavningsvariant: Carl Georg Enslein Carl Georg Enslen". emp-web-22.zetcom.ch.
- ^ "The Cologne Cathedral in anticipated completion". www.bildindex.de.
- ^ "Augustusplatz". www.europeana.eu (in Basque).
- ^ "Ansicht von Kopenhagen | Carl Georg Enslen | Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur - Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur - Startseite Bildindex". www.bildindex.de.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Enslen, Karl Georg". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
- Thieme-Becker: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, vol. 10, Leipzig 1914, p. 567
Categories:
- 1792 births
- 1866 deaths
- Austrian landscape painters
- Austrian male painters
- Artists from Vienna
- Prussian Academy of Arts alumni
- Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin