Artist
Carl Gustav Carus
Kingdom of Saxony, 1789–1869
Carl Gustav Carus was a Kingdom of Saxony German Romanticism artist. 6 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art. Carl Gustav Carus was born in Leipzig.
Carl Gustav Carus (3 January 1789 – 28 July 1869) was a German physiologist and painter, born in Leipzig, who played various roles during the Romantic era. A friend of the writer Johann Wolfgang 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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