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Karl Friedrich Lessing (February 15 1808 – January 4 1880) was a German historical and landscape painter grandnephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. He was born near Breslau and was a pupil of Heinrich Anton Dähling at the Berlin Academy. He first devoted himself to landscape and in 1826 obtained a prize with his Cemetery in Ruins. He accompanied Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow to Düsseldorf where he continued his studies devoting himself to historical paintings.
