Carl Gustav Carus

Jan 3, 1789 - Jul 28, 1869

Carl Gustav Carus was a German physiologist and painter, born in Leipzig, who played various roles during the Romantic era. A friend of the writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, he was a many-sided man: a doctor, a naturalist, a scientist, a psychologist, and a landscape painter who studied under Caspar David Friedrich.

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Frau auf dem Söller

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Faust in the Mountains

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Memories of Rome II (Raphael and Michelangelo at the Sight of St. Peter)

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