Paul Carl Leygebe

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Paul Carl Leygebe, Friedrich Wilhelm I.
Paul Carl Leygebe, Tobacco College of King Friedrich I.

Paul Carl Leygebe , also Paul Karl Leygebe , (* 1664 in Nuremberg ; † 1756 in Berlin ) was a German painter and professor of anatomy at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.

biography

Leygebe was Gottfried Leygebe's second son and moved to Berlin with his father in 1668. From 1699 to 1756 he was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. From 1715 to 1755 he worked as a teacher and professor of anatomy.

He created large paintings depicting Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg and the Prussian kings Friedrich Wilhelm I and Friedrich II . He lived in Berlin until 1730.

literature

  • George: Paul Karl Leygebe . In: Friedrich Nicolai : Description of the royal residence cities Berlin and Potsdam and all the peculiarities located there. In addition to an appendix, containing the lives of all artists who have lived in Berlin since Elector Friedrich Wilhelm the Great, or whose works of art are located there , Berlin 1769, p. 68, books.google.de

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