Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner (4 October 1808 – 10 January 1894)
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Biography

Born in

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, Werner studied painting under Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld in

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. He switched to studying architecture in

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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

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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

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. He travelled through Spain in 1856-1857, in 1862 to Palestine and then to

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, and to the latter country he returned for a longer trip in 1864. Particularly notable were his watercolors in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, where he was one of the few non-

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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

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and

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, 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

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s on the

Erechtheion The Erechtheion (latinized as Erechtheum /ɪˈrɛkθiəm, ˌɛrɪkˈθiːəm/; Ancient Greek: Ἐρέχθειον, Greek: Ερέχθειο) or Temple of Athena Polias is an ancient Greek Ionic temple- telesterion on the north side of the Acropoli ...

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Werner, Carl 1808 births 1894 deaths 19th-century German painters German male painters German watercolourists Orientalist painters 19th-century German male artists