Carl Oesterley

Carl Oesterley studied at University of Göttingen. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Employment is recorded with University of Göttingen. Positions recorded include court painter. Work by Carl Oesterley is recorded in the collections of Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History. Distinctions recorded are Bavarian Order of Merit.

He was a native of Göttingen, and studied archaeology, philosophy and history at the University of Göttingen, where in 1824 he earned his doctorate in the field of art history. Subsequently he studied drawing in Dresden, where he was a student of Johann Gottlob Matthäi (1753–1832). He then spent several years in Rome (1824–29). In 1831, he became a professor of art history at Göttingen, where he collaborated with Karl Otfried Müller (1797-1840) on the treatise Denkmäler der alten Kunst (Monuments of Ancient Art). During this time period, he extended his artistic studies in Düsseldorf (1835–38 under Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow), Munich (where he studied the frescoes of Peter von Cornelius) and Paris (1842). In 1842, Oesterley became a full professor of art, and in 1844, after finishing the painting Christus and Ahasuerus, he was appointed court painter of the Kingdom of Hanover. Beginning in 1852 he produced numerous altarpieces and other works of art for the church in Rosdorf, in Molzen near the town of Uelzen, and also in Bad Iburg.

He was the father of landscape painter Carl August Heinrich Ferdinand Oesterley.

The authorities additionally record the headings Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Oesterley, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Oesterley and Carl Osterley.

Carl Oesterley is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Classed in the genre portrait. Recorded as art historian, painter, university teacher, etcher and lithographer.