Georg Wilhelm Fasel
German, 1803-1848
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Georg (or George) Wilhelm Fasel was a painter and lithographer who began his career in Karlsruhe, Germany, before immigrating to the United States. He is best known for his portraits, historical and religious subjects. Fasel worked in Karlsruhe from around 1829 to 1848, also exhibiting in Vienna in 1836 and visiting Rome in 1837-38. From at least 1850 to 1865 he lived in New York City, where he is known to have exhibited religious paintings at the American Art-Union. Fasel drew the six scenes of 18th-century warfare between Native Americans and colonists in Heroic Deeds of Former Times (1851) and with the lithographer Edward Valois produced a collection of 12 lithograph views, Central Park Album 1862.