Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner

Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner was a German watercolor painter, born in Weimar.

He studied under Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld in Leipzig. After winning a scholarship to travel to Italy in the early year of the 1830s, he founded his own studio in Venice. He remained in Italy until the 1850s, where he developed his talent for landscape paintings.

He will remain known for his depictions in Spain, Italy, Greece, but also the Middle East. He travelled to Jerusalem and Egypt from 1862 to 1864, where he will consolidate one of scarcest colour plate books on the Middle East left today: Jerusalem, Bethlehem and the Holy Places. His views of Jerusalem are particularly noted and he was one of few non-Muslims to gain access to paint the interior of the Dome of the Rock.

Another paper solid volume of his work is Carl Werner's Nile Sketches, a praise to Egypt natural beauty, an ode to oligroves, acacia-bushes and its architectural work.

He exhibited his work in many places across Europe, in particular in England and for the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, a fondation known for bringing recognition and visibility to the medium of watercolour, whose place in art was still debated at the time.