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Artists›Carl Blechen

Carl Blechen

Kingdom of Prussia, 1798–1840

WA-00036945

Berlin

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Tier 1 · Institutional85%
Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q149571
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Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen was a German landscape painter and a professor at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. His distinctive style was characteristic of the Romantic ideals of natural beauty.

Source: Artsy · Trust score: 85% · Updated 1mo ago

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Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art

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Artworks (7)

The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam

1834 · Oil on canvas

135 × 126 cm (52 1/2 × 50 in.); Framed: 155 × 145.5 cm (61 × 57 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A Ruined Church in the Forest

1829 · brush and brown ink and watercolor over graphite on light gray wove paper

sheet: 24.8 x 34.3 cm (9 3/4 x 13 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Church and Graveyard in the Snow by Moonlight

1827 · Lithograph, with gray tone block on cream wove paper

Image: 41.4 × 35.9 cm (16 5/16 × 14 3/16 in.); Plate: 43.4 × 37.8 cm (17 1/8 × 14 15/16 in.); Sheet: 55.9 × 45 cm (22 1/16 × 17 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

David and Bathsheba

1825 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper

sheet: 20.8 x 27.1 cm (8 3/16 x 10 11/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Ruins of a Castle

1825 · Lithograph with olive-green tint stone, heightened with white gouache, on ivory wove paper

Image: 15.4 × 21.8 cm (6 1/8 × 8 5/8 in.); Sheet: 25.7 × 35 cm (10 1/8 × 13 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Pilgrim in the Woods

1825 · Lithograph in black and blue on cream wove paper

Image: 22.6 × 30.8 cm (8 15/16 × 12 3/16 in.); Sheet: 34.3 × 46 cm (13 9/16 × 18 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Monastery in the Forest

1823 · etching on chine collé

plate: 19.5 × 24.9 cm (7 11/16 × 9 13/16 in.) sheet: 29.9 × 41.9 cm (11 3/4 × 16 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

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Church and Graveyard in the Snow by Moonlight (1827)

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