Heinrich Anton Dähling (19 January 1773 – 10 September 1850) was a historical and genre painter born in

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. In 1794 he went to

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, where he was engaged in

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and as a teacher of drawing. In 1802 he visited

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, and the study of the galleries there first induced him to attempt painting in oil. From 1811 until his death he was a member of the Berlin Academy, and professor at the same from 1814 onwards. He died at

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on 10 September 1850. One of his most famous pictures is ''The Descent from the Cross'', the

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at the Garrison Church in Potsdam. In the Berlin Gallery is a ''State Entry'' painted by him.

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1773 births 1850 deaths 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German male painters 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists Artists from Hanover Academic staff of the Prussian Academy of Arts {{Germany-painter-stub

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