Karl Friedrich Lessing (15 February 1808 – 4 January 1880)

Karl Friedrich Lessing, The Return of the Crusader 1835.

Karl Friedrich Lessing was a German Romantic painter born in

Wroclaw who was the grandnephew of the famous poet,

playwright and art critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Early in his

career he painted dark, melancholic and romantic

landscapes in the style of Caspar David Friedrich. In addition to

landscapes of castles, ruins and cemeteries, he painted robbers,

monks and knights, and also painted on literary subjects, 

including fairy tales.

Karl Friedrich Lessing, Chapel on the Edge of the Wood 1839.

Karl Friedrich Lessing, The Hussite Sermon 1836.

Karl Friedrich Lessing, The Robber and His Child 1832.

Karl Friedrich Lessing, Charcoal Kiln in an Oak Tree Forest 1838.

Karl Friedrich Lessing, The Siege (Defense of a Church Courtyard

During the Thirty Years’ War) 1848.

Karl Friedrich Lessing, Soldiers at Rest 1877.

Karl Friedrich Lessing, Monastery Courtyard in the Snow c. 1828-1829.

Karl Friedrich Lessing, A Crusader on Guard in the Mountains 1836.

Karl Friedrich Lessing, Romantic Landscape with Monastery Complex 1834.

Karl Friedrich Lessing, Knight's Castle 1828.

Karl Friedrich Lessing, Jan Hus At Constance 1842.

Karl Friedrich Lessing, Cloister Cemetery in the Snow 1833.

Karl Friedrich Lessing, Walther and Hildegund Fleeing 1841.

Karl Friedrich Lessing, Riflemen Defending a Pass 1851.

Karl Friedrich Lessing, Mourning Royal Couple 1828.