Carl Georg Enslen

German painter

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Carl Georg Enslen (20 September 1792 – 17 April 1866) was an Austrian-born German painter.^[1]

Biography

Enslen was born in Vienna in 1792,^[1] and studied at the Academy of Berlin. He travelled in Italy, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark,^[2] and his panoramas give proof of a knowledge of excellent linear and aerial perspective. He was the son of Johann Carl Enslen, with whom he worked closely. He died in Lille, France in 1866, aged 73.^[1]

Collections

His work is included in the collections of the Swedish National Museum,^[2] the Swiss National Museum, Zurich,^[3] the City History Museum, Leipzig,^[4] and the Sankt-Anne Museum in Lübeck, Germany.^[5]

Gallery

Inner view of the Cologne Cathedral, 1838
Idealistic view of the Cologne Cathedral, 1839
Main square of Nuremberg, 1839

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Allgemeine deutsche Biographie: Elben - Fickler. 6 (in German). Duncker & Humblot. 1877.
^ ^a ^b "Nationalmuseum - stavningsvariant: Carl Georg Enslein Carl Georg Enslen". emp-web-22.zetcom.ch. Archived from the original on 28 July 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
^ "The Cologne Cathedral in anticipated completion". www.bildindex.de.
^ "Augustusplatz". www.europeana.eu (in Basque).
^ "Ansicht von Kopenhagen | Carl Georg Enslen | Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur - Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur - Startseite Bildindex". www.bildindex.de.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Enslen, Karl Georg". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
Thieme-Becker: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, vol. 10, Leipzig 1914, p. 567