Carl Huns

Karl Jacob Wilhelm Huhn (, ; 13 November 1831 – 28 January 1877) was a Baltic German history, genre and landscape painter, active in Russia.

Biography His father was a parochial school teacher and organist. He received his general education at a Lutheran school in Riga. In 1850, he went to Saint Petersburg to study drafting and lithography. While there, he began taking evening classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts and was admitted as a full student two years later. His primary instructor was Pyotr Basin. By 1859, he was already competing for artistic awards. In 1861, he received the title of artist first-class and a gold medal. He soon began creating icons in the local churches, notably the Cathedral of the Intercession in Yelabuga, as well as creating sketches of folk life on behalf of the Russian Geographical Society.

In 1863, he was awarded a fellowship that allowed him to travel in Germany, although he eventually settled in Paris and exhibited at the Salon of 1868. Upon his return to Saint Petersburg in 1872, he was named an academician and later elevated to a professorship. Over the next few years, he finished work started in Paris and focused on paintings of a religious nature. He was also a member of the "Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions" (Peredvizhniki).

Selected paintings