Karl August Senff

Karl August Senff

1770 1838

Baltic German painter (1770-1838)

Karl August Senff was a Baltic German painter, engraver and teacher. He is best known for his etchings of famous German and Baltic German military figures in service to the Imperial Russian Army. He served as professor of drawing at the Imperial University of Dorpat from its reopening in 1802 until his death in 1838 where he trained some of Estonia's most celebrated artists.

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