Works by this Artist
Sanssouci Palace
Karl Blechen, 1843-45
Bathers in the Park at Terni
Karl Blechen, 1833
Studies
Akademie der Künste (art academy) (1822-24, Berlin)
Career
1814-22 - banker
1824 - exhibits at Berlin art academy; set designer at Königstadt Theater (job secured with Karl Friedrich Schinkel's help) until 1827
1826 member of Association of Berlin Artists (Verein Berliner Künstler)
1827 - moves to Berlin
1831 - appointed professor of lansdcape painting at Berlin academy
1836 - signs of mental illness, resigns from academy
1837 - enters mental institution
1838 - produces last drawings
Travels
Dresden and Saxony (1823); Pomerania (1828); Italy and Rome (1828-29); Paris (1835)
Commissions from
Friedrich Wilhelm III (King of Prussia)
Important Artworks
Gulf of La Spezia, c. 1830 (Nationalgalerie, Berlin)
Palm House on the Peacock Island near Potsdam, 1834 (Schloss Sanssouci, Potsdam)
Bathers at Terni , 1835ff. (4 large, 5 small versions)