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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Wilhelm Johann Karl Zahn (1800–1871)

Zahn, Wilhelm Johann Karl (tsän). A German painter, architect, and writer on art; born at Rodenberg, Schaumburg, Aug. 21, 1800; died at Berlin, Aug. 22, 1871. He was professor in the Academy of Arts, Berlin, 1829. Among his works were: ‘The Most Beautiful Ornaments and the Most Notable Pictures from Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiæ’ (1828–30); ‘Ornaments of all Classical Periods of Art’ (1832–39); etc.