Johann Carl Emanuel von Ungern-Sternberg was born on 3 February 1773, in Paslepa Manor, near\nHaapsalu, into the family of a Field Marshal. He was educated at the fraternal educational\nestablishment of the town of Barby on the left bank of the River Elbe, then studied law. Thanks to\nhis legal education, Ungern-Sternberg was employed as a secretary of the Estonian knighthood in\nTallinn from 1803\u20131806.<\/p>\n
After travelling to Dresden in 1806, he decided to study art under Professor Traugott Leberecht\nPochmann. Ungern-Sternberg travelled extensively during his lifetime, visiting various places in\nWestern Europe between 1810 and 1829. His sepia drawings of Baltic towns and medieval\nmonuments, which he drew while travelling, are of great cultural importance. Equally important is\nthe first series of portraits of university professors, published in 1826. The series of portraits\nconsisted of four small format (28 x 22 cm) sheets printed in lithography. Four more portraits were\npublished three years later. The publication of the masterfully drawn and imaginatively fresh and\ntrue portraits was interrupted in 1830, when Ungern-Sternberg died.<\/p>\n
View of the Viljandi Caste ruins.<\/p>\n