Karl Friedrich Lessing

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Karl Friedrich Lessing
Karl Friedrich Lessing in a photograph by the firm G. & A. Overbeck (c. 1868)
Born	Karl Friedrich Lessing 15 February 1808 Breslau, Free State of Polnish-Wartenberg (now Wroclaw, Poland)
Died	4 January 1880 Karlsruhe, German Empire
Nationality	German

Karl Friedrich Lessing, also known by Carl Friedrich Lessing (15 February 1808, Breslau – 4 January 1880, Karlsruhe), was a German historical and landscape painter, grandnephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing^[1] and one of the main exponents of the Düsseldorf school of painting.