"Carl Sieg (4 August 1784, in Magdeburg – 13 April 1845, in Magdeburg) was a German painter and lithographer.
The son of bookbinder Friedrich Christian Sieg, he ...
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studied painting at the Academy of Arts in Berlin and at the provincial art school in Magdeburg. From 1808 he studied with Franz Ludwig Catel in Paris, where he also took classes in the painting school of Jacques-Louis David. From 1813 to 1816 he lived in Italy, mainly Rome, where he helped found the Künstlerhilfskasse and worked alongside artists Peter von Cornelius, Johann Friedrich Overbeck and Wilhelm von Schadow. Except for the years 1819–21, when he worked in Berlin, he spent the rest of his life in his hometown, working primarily as a lithographer and portraitist. In Magdeburg, he created numerous portraits of members from various families as well as portraits of clergymen and politicians." - (en.wikipedia.org 05.01.2021)
