Georg Friedrich Kersting (1785-1847)

• Was a German painter.
• Kersting came from a large and impoverished family in Güstrow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the son of a glazier.
• He studied at the progressive Copenhagen Academy between 1805 and 1808.
• Kersting moved to Dresden in 1808, joining the Lützow Free Corps—a voluntary force of the Prussian Army—in 1813.
• He moved to Poland in 1814 to work as a drawing master, and returned to Meissen in 1818, where he married and had four children.
• Kersting was a friend of Caspar David Friedrich.
• The two friends went on a walking tour of the Riesengebirge in 1810.
• During his many hikes with Friedrich, the two painted numerous sketches and observations from nature.

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