Christian Gottlieb Welté (3 December 1745/49 – 17 December 1792) was an etcher and landscape painter from Mainz, Germany. His works, accomplished mostly in small format, represent rococo and transition to early classicism. In Estonia, he painted figural staffages on large Põltsamaa landscapes and depicted Estonian peasants in the 1780s; in Mainz and

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he was known mostly as an etcher and a landscapist. Welté was a typical artist of the

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– pensive, developing and nonconformist. He worked in Estonia in the late 18th century at the Põltsamaa Castle and Põltsamaa porcelain manufacture (1781-1784), then as a homeschool teacher in the Võisiku manor (1785-1788) and spent his last years at the Lohu manor in the present-day Kohila Parish, Rapla County, where he died in 1792. His most important work, the illusionist

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wall paintings in the hall of the Lohu manor covering 27,6 m², were discovered in the 1960s under the Grisaille pictorial

wall papers on the theme of Don Quixote, printed by " Jacquemart & Bénard" in Paris, France.Image of the Hall of Lohu manor

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* ttp://www.artnet.com/artist/697383/gottlieb-welte.html Gottlieb Welté at galleries and auctions worldwidebr>Lohu ManorPõltsamaa Manor (Castle)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Welte, Christian Gottlieb 1745 births 1792 deaths 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German male painters Rococo painters Baltic-German people German etchers Estonian painters 18th-century Estonian people