The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Oesterley, Karl Wilhelm

OESTERLEY, ĕ'stėr-lĭ, Karl Wilhelm, German painter: b. Göttingen, 20 June 1805; d. Hanover, 28 March 1891. He was a pupil of Matthæus in Dresden, studied in Rome 1824-29, in 1831 was appointed professor of the history of art in the university of his native town and in collaboration with Ottfried Müller published &lsquo;Monuments of Art.&rsquo; Meanwhile he was extending his artistic studies in Düsseldorf, Munich and Paris. On the completion of his picture, &lsquo;Christ and Ahasuerus&rsquo; (1844), he was appointed court painter of Hanover. The chief of his remaining works are &lsquo;Jephtha's Daughter&rsquo; (1836); &lsquo;Christ Blessing Little Children&rsquo; (1841); &lsquo;The Ascension&rsquo; (in the chapel royal at Hanover), completed 1838; &lsquo;Scene from Bürger's &ldquo;Lenore.&rdquo; &rsquo; He produced also altar-pieces and portraits and designed stained-glass windows.