Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien

Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien (1811–1869) was a 19th-century German painter and lithographer.

Carl Gottfried Eybe
Born(1811-03-03)3 March 1811
Died9 May 1869(1869-05-09) (aged 58)
Occupation(s)painter, lithographer and sculptor
Fruit still life by Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien

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. He died 9 May 1869.[1]

References edit

  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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