Carl Ebert (painter)

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Forest interior with Pan playing the flute

Carl Ebert (born March 13, 1821 in Stuttgart , † March 1, 1885 in Munich ) was a German landscape painter.

After the early death of his parents, his relatives made it possible for him to study at the Royal Art School in Stuttgart under Gottlob Friedrich Steinkopf and Johann Friedrich Dieterich .

In 1846 he came to Munich, where he became a private student of Eduard Schleich the Elder and often visited the Munich Pinakothek to study the works of Dutch masters.

With Friedrich Salzer and Richard Zimmermann he visited the painters' colonies of Polling and Eberfing . Since then he has devoted himself exclusively to landscape painting, in particular the forest landscapes.

He attended the Paris World's Fair in 1855 and 1867, where he was influenced by the Barbizon School .

Together with Eduard Schleich the Elder and Carl Morgenstern , he went on study trips to France, Belgium and Holland. In 1857 and 1872 he visited Italy. In 1881 he spent several months in Bosnia .

He received a state pension from King Ludwig II of Bavaria , and from King Karl von Württemberg he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Crown.

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