Carl Eduard Ahrendts (1822-1898) - landscape painter in The Hague

Carl Eduard Ahrendts, last descendant of the Dutch artist family Ziesenis, lived and worked in The Hague throughout his life. His father Carl Gottfried Ahrendts (1794-1884) was under-equerry of King Willem I, his grandfather B.W.H. Ziesenis (1768-1820) was a well-known architect, who in 1807 furnished the Amsterdam 'Stadhuis' (city hall) as the castle of King Louis Napoleon and in 1815 extensively rebuilt and extended the 'Oude Hof' in The Hague, which has since become Paleis Noordeinde, the winter and city palace of the Dutch royal family.

B.W.H. Ziesenis was the eldest son of the Amsterdam city sculptor Anthonie Ziesenis (1731-1801) and married in a second marriage to the famous actress Johanna Cornelia Wattier (1762-1827), who thus became stepmother of C.E. Ahrendts' mother Johanna Petronella Ziesenis (1798-1861).

Carl Eduard Ahrendts mainly painted landscapes in the style of Dutch Romanticism and occasionally tried with newer expressions. His 'unknown' work is documented with over 200 works that are still traded today.