Karl Eduard Biermann
# Karl Eduard Biermann

Karl Eduard Biermann (1803–92) was a German landscape painter.

## Biography

He was born in Berlin. He was at first a decorative painter, but afterwards studied landscape in Switzerland, the Tyrol, and Italy, and was one of the founders and most prominent members of the Berlin school of landscape painting. He was for some time a professor in the Berlin Academy. His style has been characterized as in general forceful and harmonious, large in outline, and somewhat decorative in detail.

## Works

* Evening in the High Alps (1842), a highly regarded piece
* View of Florence (1834)
* Tasso's Oak (1836)
* Isle of Philæ
* Temple of Edfu
* Sixteen watercolors on motives drawn from Dalmatia (1853)
