Background
HAAG, Carl was born on April 20, 1820 in Bavaria. Son of Christopher Wilhelm Haag.
HAAG, Carl was born on April 20, 1820 in Bavaria. Son of Christopher Wilhelm Haag.
Academies of Nurnberg and Munich.
Began as illustrator, painted portraits and architectural subjects at Nurnberg, Munich and Rome. Settled in England 1847, gave up painting in oils, and adopted watercolours in preference. Travelled in Dalmatia, Montenegro, Greece, Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land.
Traversed several deserts, lived with Bedaween tribes en bon camorade, learning their manners and customs. Painted a cyklus of desert scenes illustrative of Bedaween life, also holy places in Jerusalem, among them many to which Christians had not yet obtained admission. Commander of Saxe-Coburg Gotha House Order, 1887.
Commander of St. Michael (Bavaria), 1900. Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur (Paris Exhibition), 1878. Officer of the Medjidie, 1874.
Order of Merit (Bavaria), 1872. Order of Merit for Art and Science (Saxe-Coburg Gotha), 1893. Jubilee Medal of His (or Her) Majesty Queen Victoria, 1897. Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours; Hofmaler to Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Antiquities and curiosities, restorer of the mediaeval Red Tower at Oberwesel on the Rhine.
Spouse 1866, Ida, o.daughter of General Buettner.