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 ‘Monuments of Art.’ Meanwhile he was extending his artistic studies in Düsseldorf, Munich and Paris. On the completion of his picture, ‘Christ and Ahasuerus’ (1844), he was appointed court painter of Hanover. The chief of his remaining works are ‘Jephtha's Daughter’ (1836); ‘Christ Blessing Little Children’ (1841); ‘The Ascension’ (in the chapel royal at Hanover), completed 1838; ‘Scene from Bürger's “Lenore.” ’ He produced also altar-pieces and portraits and designed stained-glass windows.