Erich Correns

Erich Correns (1821–1877) was a German portrait painter and lithographer.

Life

Duchess Helene in Bavaria, 1859

Correns was born at Cologne in 1821, and after studying jurisprudence at Bonn, went to the Academy at Munich, and became an accomplished portrait painter and lithographer. He was well known for the elegance of his portraits, his subjects including King Maximilian of Bavaria and his consort Queen Maria.[1]

He died at Munich in 1877.[1]

The botanist and geneticist Karl Erich Correns was his son.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Bryan 1886-9.
  2. ↑ Daintith, [edited by] John (1994). Biographical encyclopedia of scientists (2. ed.). Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing. p. 182. ISBN 9780750302876.

Sources

This article incorporates text from the article "CORRENS, Erich" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.


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