- NameAsmus Carstens
- Sexmale
- Variant namesfullständigt namn: Asmus Jakob Carstens
- Nationality/Datesborn 1754-05-10, dead 1798-05-25
- PlacesPlace of birth: Schleswig, Germany
Place of death: Rom, Italien
BiographyKällor: AKL, Cd-from, AKL XVI, 1997, 627.Künstler. Beruf: Maler; Porträtmaler; Bildhauer; Zeichner; Illustrator Anderer Beruf: weinhändler ; GEO-Nachweis: Deutschland ; Staat: Deutschland; Italien; Dänemark ; Erwähnungsort: Eckernförde; Kopenhagen; Lübeck; Berlin; Rom
Grove Art Online: Carstens, Asmus Jakob [from OCWA] Danish neoclassical painter and draughtsman. He trained at the Copenhagen Academy under Abildgaard before going to Rome in 1783.
Google: b Sanct Gürgen, nr Schleswig, Denmark [now Germany], 10 May 1754; d Rome, 2 May 1798). Danish German painter and draughtsman. Both Denmark and Germany claim him as their own in their national histories of art, but his greatest impact was on the international group of artists gathered in the last decade of the 18th century in Rome, where Carstens spent his last and most productive years
German historical painter and engraver. He studied in Copenhagen and in Italy. He was influenced by the work of Giulio Romano