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Carl Gustav Carus - Tannen

Tannen (Circa 1840)

Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789 - 1869)
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Carl Gustav Carus

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 .

In 1811 he graduated as a doctor of medicine and a doctor of philosophy. In 1814 he was appointed professor of obstetrics and director of the maternity clinic at the teaching institution for medicine and surgery in Dresden . He wrote on art theory. From 1814 to 1817 he taught himself oil painting working under Caspar David Friedrich , a Dresden landscape painter. Subsequently he studied under Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld at the Oeser drawing academy.

When the King of Saxony, Frederick Augustus II , made an informal tour of Britain in 1844, Carus accompanied him as his personal physician. It was not a state visit, but the King, with Carus, was the guest of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at Windsor Castle, and Carus was able to visit many of the sights in London and the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge, and meet others active in the field of scientific discoveries. They toured widely in England, Wales and Scotland, and afterwards Carus published, on the basis of his journal, The King of Saxony's Journey through England and Scotland, 1844 .

He is best known to scientists for originating the concept of the vertebrate archetype , a seminal idea in the development of Darwin's theory of evolution . In 1836, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . Carus is also noted for Psyche (1846).

He developed a theory of landscape painting whose objective was the visualization of the inner workings of geological phenomena, which he called "Erdlebenbildkunst" (pictorial art of the life of the earth).

Carus died in Dresden. He is buried in the Trinitatis-Friedhof (Trinitatis Cemetery) east of the city center. The grave lies in the south-west section, against the southern wall.

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Wanderer on the Mountaintop

Wanderer on the Mountaintop (1818)

Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789 - 1869)
Woman On The Balcony

Woman On The Balcony

Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789 - 1869)
Barge Trip on the Elbe near Dresden (Morning on the Elbe)

Barge Trip on the Elbe near Dresden (Morning on the Elbe) (1827)

Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789 - 1869)
Die Frauenkirche in Dresden

Die Frauenkirche in Dresden (1824)

Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789 - 1869)
Memory of a Wooded Island in the Baltic Sea(Oak trees by the Sea)

Memory of a Wooded Island in the Baltic Sea(Oak trees by the Sea)

Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789 - 1869)
Malerstube im Mondschein

Malerstube im Mondschein (1826)

Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789 - 1869)
Waldlandschaft (Landschaftsstudie, vermutlich das Rosental bei Leipzig)

Waldlandschaft (Landschaftsstudie, vermutlich das Rosental bei Leipzig)

Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789 - 1869)
Vinyard in Pillnitz in early summer

Vinyard in Pillnitz in early summer (Circa 1830-40)

Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789 - 1869)
Moon Rising over the Sea

Moon Rising over the Sea (1827)

Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789 - 1869)
Pilgrim in a Rocky Valley

Pilgrim in a Rocky Valley (circa 1820)

Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789 - 1869)
Wooded landscape

Wooded landscape (1830)

Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789 - 1869)
Frühsommerlicher Weinberg in Pillnitz

Frühsommerlicher Weinberg in Pillnitz (between 1830 and 1840)

Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789 - 1869)
Balcony Room with a View of the Bay of Naples (via Santa Lucia and the Castel dell’Ovo)

Balcony Room with a View of the Bay of Naples (via Santa Lucia and the Castel dell’Ovo) (circa 1829-1830)

Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789 - 1869)
Firs

Firs (circa 1840)

Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789 - 1869)
Mondnacht am italienischen Meer mit einem versunkenen Leser am gotischen Fenster

Mondnacht am italienischen Meer mit einem versunkenen Leser am gotischen Fenster (Circa 1832)

Carl Gustav Carus (German, 1789 - 1869)
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