Background
Ahlborn was born in Hanover, son of the Hanoverian master tailor Heinrich Christian Ahlborn and Dorothea Elisabeth Röllecke.
Ahlborn was born in Hanover, son of the Hanoverian master tailor Heinrich Christian Ahlborn and Dorothea Elisabeth Röllecke.
He entered the Prussian Academy of Arts (Berlin) in 1819, where he studied with Karl Wilhelm Wach.
In this period, he lived in Rome, Florence, and Ascoli. His paintings are mainly of Italian, North German, and Tyrolean landscapes, but also including a few portraits and religious works. Ahlborn died in Rome in 1857.
In 1833 he became a member of the Prussian Academy.