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Carl Suhrlandt (10 July 1828, Ludwigslust
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- 11 February 1919, Kochel am See
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) was a German painter. All of his works feature animals; mostly horses.
Life and work
He came from a family of artists. His father,Rudolph Suhrlandt
Rudolph Friedrich Carl Suhrlandt (19 December 1781, in Ludwigslust – 2 February 1862, in Schwerin) was a German portrait painter and lithographer.
Biography
His father, Johann Heinrich Suhrlandt, was a court painter for Grand Duke Fredrick ...
, was a court painter
A court painter was an artist who painted for the members of a royal or princely family, sometimes on a fixed salary and on an exclusive basis where the artist was not supposed to undertake other work. Painters were the most common, but the cour ...
and his mother, Wilhelmine
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, was a lithographer
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. His sister, , was a concert violinist who also painted.
He received his first drawing lessons from his father, then studied sculpting with Christian Daniel Rauch in Berlin
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. In 1851, he went to Paris to study painting with Ary Scheffer. He worked in Copenhagen
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from 1859 to 1860, then visited St. Petersburg
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in 1861, where he became a member of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts
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He then went to live in Schwerin where, in 1874, he was appointed a Professor by Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Frederick Francis II ( German: ''Friedrich Franz II;'' 28 February 1823 – 15 April 1883) was a Prussian officer and Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 7 March 1842 until 15 April 1883.
Biography
He was born in Schloss Ludwigslust, t ...
. In 1898, he moved to Munich. Although he initially painted portraits and historical scenes, he eventually became a sought-after horse painter and made several visits to England in that capacity.
Sources
* "Suhrlandt, Carl". In: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Vol.32: Stephens–Theodotos. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1938, pg.280. * Hela Baudis: ''Rudolph Suhrlandt (1781–1862). Grenzgänger zwischen Klassizismus und Biedermeier. Leben und Werk eines deutschen Hofmalers und Porträtisten des Bürgertums'' Dissertation, Greifswald 2008, pp. 179–185Online
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