Carl Friedrich Weidemann (painter)

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Carl Friedrich Weidemann (born February 12, 1770 in Hamburg ; † August 25, 1843 there ) was a German painter and lithographer.

Life

Emilie Pohlmann , lithograph from 1821

After taking his first drawing lessons from Johann Anton Tischbein , he continued his autodidactic training. He lived and worked as a portrait painter and lithographer in Hamburg. Thieme-Becker names his portraits of the rabbi Isaak Bernays (1822), the Hamburg actor Gödemann and his picture of Saint Ansgar (1826) based on the panel by Hans Bornemann in the main church of Saint Petri as examples . Günther Gensler lithographed the portrait of the pianist Johann Hermann Clasing based on Weidemann's model .

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