Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner (October 4, 1808 – 1894) was a German

Germany

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 watercolor painter

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Biography

Born in Weimar

Weimar

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, Werner studied painting under Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld was a German painter.-Biography:Schnorr was born at Leipzig, where he received his earliest instruction from his father Johann Veit Schnorr , a draughtsman, engraver and painter...

 in Leipzig

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. He switched to studying architecture

Architecture

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 in Munich

Munich

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 from 1829 to 1831, but thereafter returned to painting. He won a scholarship to travel to Italy

Italy

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, where he ended up founding a studio in Venice

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 and remaining until the 1850s, making a name for himself as a watercolor painter. He exhibited around Europe, in particular traveling often to England

England

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, where he exhibited at the New Watercolour Society.

He traveled through Spain

Spain

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 in 1856 and 1857, and then in Egypt

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 and Palestine

Palestine

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 from 1862 to 1864. Particularly notable were his watercolors in Jerusalem, where he was one of the few non-Muslims able to gain access to paint the interior of the Dome of the Rock

Dome of the Rock

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. He published some watercolors from this trip in 1875 as Carl Werner's Nile Sketches. He later traveled to Greece

Greece

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 and Sicily

Sicily

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, and became a professor at the Leipzig Academy, dying in Leipzig in 1894.

Works

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)

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