His specialties included scenes featuring Danish, German, and Norwegian landscapes.
He was the son of Johan Christian Libert (1790–1846) and his first wife, Andrea Margrethe Hassing (1796–1820).
[2] He was a graduate of the Royal Academy in Copenhagen where he studied under Johan Ludwig Lund (1777–1867).
[3][5] Many of his works today are in the Danish National Gallery and Thorvaldsens Museum, and are highly sought after by buyers; his painting Ansicht des Heidelberger Schlosses Zwischen der Molkenkur, der Stadt (1859) sold for $11,240 ($23,106 in 2023) at Sotheby's in Munich in June 1994.
[4] Media related to Georg Emil Libert at Wikimedia Commons