Carl Eggers

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Carl Johann Adolf Eggers (1 October 1787, Neustrelitz – 24 July 1863, Neustrelitz) was a German history painter.

Life and work

From 1809 to 1812, he studied at the

.

In 1819, he married Elisabeth Seitz; sister of the engraver, Johann Baptist Seitz (1786-1850).

During this time, he devoted himself primarily to

, the personification of the City of Rome, for the Vatican coin collection.

After returning to Germany, he created a version of "Christ Washing the Feet of the Apostles" for Naumburg Cathedral, on behalf of Canon Ampach. From 1847 to 1848, together with Wilhelm Schütze, he worked on frescoes designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the hall of the Altes Museum. His frescoes in the Chapel at the cemetery in Neustrelitz have not survived.

See also

• List of German painters

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Eggers, Johann Karl". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
• "Eggers, Carl". In:
  ISBN 3-598-22772-8
  , pp. 341 f.
• Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, "Eggers, Carl (Johann C.)", Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 10, E. A. Seemann, 1914 pp. 377–378 (Online)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Carl Eggers.

• Literature about Carl Eggers in the State Bibliography (Landesbibliographie) of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern