Carl Joseph Begas

1794–1854 · Romanticism

Carl Joseph Begas, or Karl Begas, was a German painter who played an important role in the transition from Romanticism to Realism. He was the first in a multi-generational "dynasty" of artists.

13 paintings

• Self-portrait (1819)
• Die Familie Begas (1821)
• Double Portrait of the Artist's Parents (1816)
• Bildnis des Geh. Kämmerers Timm (1831)
• Oskar Begas im Alter von sieben Jahren an der Staffelei (1835)
• Carl Begas the Younger as child (1850)
• self-portrait (1820)
• Wilhelmine Begas, the Artists Wife (1828)
• The horticulture director Peter Joseph Lenné (1830)
• Portrait of Mrs. Gedicke (1830)
• The Artist's Parents (1826)
• Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1826)
• Portrait of Sculptor Thorwaldsen (1820)