Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien
Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien (1811–1869) was a 19th-century German painter and lithographer. Wohlien was born 3 March 1811 in Altona, Hamburg, son to Johann Heinrich Wohlien of the Wohlien family of organ builders with their own workshop in Altona. He was a pupil of Friedrich Carl Gröger, as was Carl Gottfried Eybe with whom Wohlien shared a lifelong friendship.
Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien
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- Name
- Carl Gottfried Eybe
- Born
- 3 March 1811
- Birthplace
- Hamburg
- Died
- 9 May 1869
- Place of death
- Blankenese
- Occupation
- painter, lithographer and sculptor
- Nationality
- Hamburg.
- Languages
- German.
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Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien (1811–1869) was a 19th-century German painter and lithographer. Wohlien was born 3 March 1811 in Altona, Hamburg, son to Johann Heinrich Wohlien of the Wohlien family of organ builders with their own workshop in Altona. He was a pupil of Friedrich Carl Gröger, as was Carl Gottfried Eybe with whom Wohlien shared a lifelong friendship.
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He died 9 May 1869.
Portrait of Frederik VI (1784-1839) in gala uniform wearing the Order of the Elephant, a silver merit cross and badge and breast star as a Grand Commander of the Order of Dannebrog. After F. C. Gröger's portrait dated 1809
Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien / After Friedrich Carl Gröger · Bruun Rasmussen
Ludwig Devrient auf dem Frontispiz in Ludwig Eisenbergs Lexikon 1903. Unbekannter Künstler nach dem Gemälde von Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien, 1831
Ludwig Eisenberg's Großes Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Bühne im XIX. Jahrhundert, 1903
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• Name — Carl Gottfried Eybe • Born — 3 March 1811 • Birthplace — Hamburg • Died — 9 May 1869 • Place of death — Blankenese • Occupation — painter, lithographer and sculptor • Illustration — Fruit still life by Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien
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1811
Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien was born on 3 March 1811.
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Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien died at Altona-Altstadt.
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- 1.Vollmer, Hans "Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien" in Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (General Encyclopaedia of Visual Artists from Antiquity to the Present Day), edited by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker Volume 36: Wilhelmy–Zyzywi, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1947, pp.181–182
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