Karl Friedrich Lessing

Karl Friedrich Lessing
Karl Friedrich Lessing in a photograph by the firm G. & A. Overbeck (c.1868)
Born
Karl Friedrich Lessing

15 February 1808
Died4 January 1880(1880-01-04) (aged 71)
NationalityGerman
RelativesChristian Friedrich Lessing (brother)

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