Carl Teodor Löwstädt (16 September 1787 – 16 June 1829) was a Swedish printmaker and artist. He was born in

Stralsund Stralsund (; Swedish language, Swedish: ''Strålsund''), officially the Hanseatic League, Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German language, German: ''Hansestadt Stralsund''), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklen ...

Swedish Pomerania Swedish Pomerania (; ) was a dominions of Sweden, dominion under the Sweden, Swedish Crown from 1630 to 1815 on what is now the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of Germany and Poland. Following the Polish-Swedish War, Polish War and the Thirty Years' War ...

. Works by him were exhibited in exhibitions at the

Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts (), commonly called the Royal Academy, is located in Stockholm, Sweden. An independent organization that promotes the development of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other fine arts, it is one of seve ...

in 1813, 1815 and 1816, but it is not certain that he ever studied there. He was mainly a printmaker, and was one of the first artists in Sweden to use

lithography Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the miscibility, immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by ...

as a printing technique. Löwstädt published several albums of caricatures, military uniforms and copies of historical artworks. In addition, he was active as an art teacher. His son was publisher , and his granddaughters Emma Chadwick and Eva Löwstädt-Åström were also artists. He died in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Löwstädt, Carl Teodor 1787 births 1829 deaths People from Stralsund Swedish printmakers People from Swedish Pomerania