Carl Sieg (4 August 1784 – 13 April 1845, in Magdeburg) was a German portrait painter and

lithographer Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German ...

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Born in

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; ) is the Capital city, capital of the Germany, German States of Germany, state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is on the Elbe river. Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archbishopric of Mag ...

, the son of bookbinder Friedrich Christian Sieg, he studied painting at the Academy of Arts in Berlin and at the provincial art school in Magdeburg. From 1808 he studied with Franz Ludwig Catel in Paris, where he also took classes in the painting school of

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. From 1813 to 1816 he lived in Italy, mainly Rome, where he helped found the ''Künstlerhilfskasse'' and worked alongside artists

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and

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. Except for the years 1819–21, when he worked in Berlin, he spent the rest of his life in his hometown, working primarily as a lithographer and

portraitist A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better re ...

. In Magdeburg, he created numerous portraits of members from various families as well as portraits of clergymen and politicians.Magdeburger Biographischen Lexikon
(biography) Among his better works was an

altarpiece An altarpiece is a painting or sculpture, including relief, of religious subject matter made for placing at the back of or behind the altar of a Christian church. Though most commonly used for a single work of art such as a painting or sculpture, ...

depicting the laying of Christ's body at the foot of the cross by

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(''Niederlegung des Leichnams Christi am Fuße des Kreuzes durch Joseph von Arimathia'', 1818) for the church of St. Sebastian in Magdeburg. In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the destruction of Magdeburg (1631) during the

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, he painted a portrait of celebrated Lutheran pastor Reinhard Bake (1587–1657).Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg - "Porträt Pastor Bake"
/ref> A number of Sieg's works are in the collections of the Kulturhistorisches Museum in Magdeburg. He died in

at the age of 60.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sieg, Carl 1784 births 1845 deaths Artists from Magdeburg Painters from Saxony-Anhalt 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German lithographers Painters from the Kingdom of Prussia

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