Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner (4 October 1808 – 10 January 1894)
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Biography

Born in

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, Werner studied painting under

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (26 March 1794 – 24 May 1872) () was a German painter, chiefly of Biblical subjects. As a young man he associated with the painters of the Nazarene movement who revived the florid Renaissance style in religious ...

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. He switched to studying architecture in

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from 1829 to 1831, but thereafter returned to painting. He won a scholarship to travel to Italy, where he ended up founding a studio in

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and remaining until the 1850s, making a name for himself as a watercolor painter. He exhibited around Europe, in particular travelling often to England, where he exhibited at the New Watercolour Society. He travelled through Spain in 1856-1857, in 1862 to

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and then to

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, and to the latter country he returned for a longer trip in 1864. Particularly notable were his watercolors in

Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...

, where he was one of the few non-

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able to gain access to paint the interior of the

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. He published a large body of work in London as ''Jerusalem and the Holy Places'', and some more watercolors from Egypt in 1875 as ''Carl Werner's Nile Sketches''. He later travelled to

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and

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, and became a professor at the Leipzig Academy, dying in Leipzig in 1894. His works include: * ''Venice in her Zenith and Decline'' * ''The Ducal Palace, with a Scene from the Merchant of Venice'' * ''The Triumphal Procession of Doge Cantarini'' (5 ft. high), * ''The Zisa Hall in Palermo'' * ''The Lions' Court of the Alhambra'' * ''Jerusalem and the Holy Land'', comprises 30 designs, published with text and colored plates (London, 1866-7)

Selected paintings

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File:Werner Temple of Philae.jpg, View the

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s on the

Erechtheion The Erechtheion (, latinized as Erechtheum ; , ) or Temple of Athena Polias is an ancient Greek Ionic temple on the north side of the Acropolis, Athens, which was primarily dedicated to the goddess Athena. The Ionic building, which housed the ...

References

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Werner, Carl 1808 births 1894 deaths 19th-century German painters German male painters German watercolourists German Orientalist painters 19th-century German male artists