Caroline Lizius

Caroline Lizius (24 March 1824, Aschaffenburg – 11 December 1908, Köln) was a German soprano in the Munich court music between 1844 and 1848.

[1] She also appeared in the Gallery of Beauties gathered by King Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1842.

[2] Caroline was born in Aschaffenburg in 1824 to Christoph Franz Lizius and Catharina Sodi.

[4] When Caroline was sixteen, she met King Ludwig I of Bavaria for the first time.

The king had Joseph Karl Stieler paint her as early as 1841 and Ludwig immediately commissioned a second in 1843 as Caroline "had become more beautiful".

17 years old Caroline Lizius in a painting for the Gallery of Beauties , painted by Joseph Karl Stieler in 1842.