Carl Werner
{{Short description|German watercolour painter (1808–1894)}}
{{About|the German watercolorist|people with a similar name|Karl Werner (disambiguation)}}
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| birth_date = 4 October 1808
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| death_date = 10 January 1894
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| education = Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Leipzig
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Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner (4 October 1808 – 10 January 1894)[http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/szint/egyeb/lexikon/pallas/html/107/pc010785.html#9 A Pallas nagylexikona] was a German watercolor painter.
Biography
Born in Weimar, Werner studied painting under Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld in Leipzig. He switched to studying architecture in Munich 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 Venice 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 Palestine and then to Egypt, and to the latter country he returned for a longer trip in 1864. Particularly notable were his watercolors in Jerusalem, where he was one of the few non-Muslims able to gain access to paint the interior of the Dome of the Rock. 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 Greece and Sicily, 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
File:Cairo; tomb of Sultan Barsbai (Barsb¯ay). Colour lithograph Wellcome V0050136.jpg|Tomb of Sultan Barsbay
File:Werner Dom von Cefalu.jpg|Cefalù Cathedral
File:Werner Temple of Philae.jpg|View the Temple of Isis at Philae
File:Werner Carl-Friedrich - The Prostasis (portico) of the Caryatids on the Erechtheion - Google Art Project.jpg|The Portico of the Caryatids on the Erechtheion
References
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=Sources=
- {{cite encyclopedia | author = Lynne Thornton | title = Carl Werner | encyclopedia = The Orientalists: Painter-Travellers | publisher = ACR Edition | year = 1994 | isbn = 2-86770-083-3 | pages = 182}}
- {{Cite AmCyc|wstitle=Werner, Karl}}
External links
{{commons category|Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner}}
- {{de-ADB|42|61|63|Werner, Karl Friedrich Heinrich|Hermann Arthur Lier|ADB:Werner, Carl}}
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Category:19th-century German painters
Category:German watercolourists