Carl Ferdinand Stelzner
Ref.No.: 10.712
Kat.No.: 2002-116
Kat.No.: 2002-116
Carl Ferdinand Stelzner
Stelzner, Carl Ferdinand
(1805 Flensburg - 1894 Hamburg)
Stelzner was a travelling artist who broadened his knowledge on his journeys. Before he settled in Hamburg in 1825 he is recorded at Paris (1826/27 and 1831-34), London (1834), Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Vienna and Saint Petersburg. In England he married the paintress Carolina Stelzner. In addition to miniatures he also made daguerreotypes (an early type of photograph). In 1854 he lost his eyesight.
