Education
Born in Weimar, Werner studied painting under Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld in Leipzig.
Born in Weimar, Werner studied painting under Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld in Leipzig.
He switched to studying architecture in Munich from 1829 to 1831, but thereafter returned to painting. He exhibited around Europe, in particular traveling often to England, where he exhibited at the New Watercolour Society. He traveled through Spain in 1856 and 1857, and then in Egypt and Palestine from 1862 to 1864.
He published some watercolors from this trip in 1875 as Carl Werner"s Nile Sketches.
He later traveled to Greece and Sicily, and became a professor at the Leipzig Academy, dying in Leipzig in 1894.