Artist: Carl Blechen

Title: Interior of a Palm House

Medium: Lithograph on Paper

Art Dimensions: 37.5 H x 33 W inches


ARTIST BIO:

Carl Ferdinand Blechen went to the Lyceum at the Oberkirche St.Nikolai in Cottbus in Germany from 1805 to 1815, but his folks couldn't pay for any further instruction at the school, so they apprenticed him to a banker and he was occupied with that calling until 1822 when enthusiasm for art drove him to go to the Berlin Art Academy.

After a short trek to Dresden and Saxon in Switzerland, Carl Ferdinand Blechen came back to Berlin and acquired a position as a decorator for the Royal Theater on the Alexanderplatz. He wedded in 1824 and became a member of the Berlin Artists' Association in 1827. Soon thereafter, he was let go from the Theater due to a progressing dispute with the singer Henriette Sontag. From that point forward, he attempted to support himself as an independent artist. In 1828, he took a study outing to the Baltic Sea, then an excursion to Italy which produced hundreds of sketches that were later expounded in his Berlin studio. He had been profoundly awed by the scenes there and changed his whole way of painting to reflect what he had seen romantically.

Source: https://theworldsartist.com/artist/carl-blechen

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