Carl Goebel (painter, 1824)

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Demolition of the fire site , 1875

Carl Peter Goebel (born February 26, 1824 in Vienna ; † February 10, 1899 there ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Goebel was the son of the history painter Carl Peter Goebel († 1823), grandson of the Vienna Academy Director Josef Klieber - by whom he was raised - and nephew of the painter and lithographer Eduard Klieber . He became a student at the Vienna Academy and received the Füger Composition Prize at the age of 15 .

After his academic career Goebel began to devote himself exclusively to watercolor painting , initially mainly as a portrait painter in various countries and at the great courts of Europe.

In addition, the artist also created animal and hunting scenes and ethnographic genre pictures from various nations, for which repeated study trips to Russia , Spain , France , Italy and Hungary provided the material. The largest collections of his portraits were owned by the Count von Chambord, hunting pictures Prince Schwarzenberg and Count Lichnowski. Goebel lived and died in Vienna.

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