Painting - Works of Carl Gustav Carus (77 works)

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Life and art

He received his secondary education at the St. Thomas School in Leipzig. Having received his first lessons in painting, Carus entered the University of Leipzig (1804-1810), where he studied natural sciences, philosophy and medicine; graduated from the university with a degree in medicine in 1811. While studying at the university, he also attends drawing courses. Until 1814 he worked as an assistant at the maternity station of the Trier Society in Leipzig, then received the title of professor at the department of obstetrics in Dresden. The University Hospital of the Technical University of Dresden is named after Carl Gustav Carus.
In 1815, in Dresden, Carus met Caspar David Friedrich, who had a huge influence on Carus’s artistic work and his friendship with whom continued for many years. Carus travels a lot; the artist’s trips to Italy and England were especially fruitful creatively.
In 1815-1824 he wrote his “Nine Letters on Landscape Painting”, one of the main theoretical works that laid the foundations of the German romantic school of painting. Carus was also friendly with Goethe and wrote a biography of the poet, which was published in 1863.