Karl Eduard Biermann

Karl Eduard Biermann (1803–92) was a German landscape painter.

The Forecourt of the
Temple of Edfu
Finstermünz Pass in the Tyrol, 1830
Borsig Ironworks, Berlin, 1847

Biography

He was born in Berlin. He was at first a decorative painter, but afterwards studied landscape in Switzerland, the Tyrol, and Italy, and was one of the founders and most prominent members of the Berlin school of landscape painting. He was for some time a professor in the Berlin Academy. His style has been characterized as in general forceful and harmonious, large in outline, and somewhat decorative in detail.

Works
  • Evening in the High Alps (1842), a highly regarded piece
  • View of Florence (1834)
  • Tasso's Oak (1836)
  • Isle of Philæ
  • Temple of Edfu
  • Sixteen watercolors on motives drawn from Dalmatia (1853)

See also

References
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Biermann, Karl Eduard" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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