Carl Sieg

Carl Sieg (4 August 1784 – 13 April 1845, in Magdeburg) was a German portrait painter and lithographer.

From 1808 he studied with Franz Ludwig Catel in Paris, where he also took classes in the painting school of Jacques-Louis David.

From 1813 to 1816 he lived in Italy, mainly Rome, where he helped found the Künstlerhilfskasse and worked alongside artists Peter von Cornelius, Johann Friedrich Overbeck and Wilhelm von Schadow.

[1] Among his better works was an altarpiece depicting the laying of Christ's body at the foot of the cross by Joseph of Arimathea (Niederlegung des Leichnams Christi am Fuße des Kreuzes durch Joseph von Arimathia, 1818) for the church of St. Sebastian in Magdeburg.

[1] In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the destruction of Magdeburg (1631) during the Thirty Years' War, he painted a portrait of celebrated Lutheran pastor Reinhard Bake (1587–1657).