Carl Ebert was a German landscape painter. He studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart under Gottlob Friedrich Steinkopf and Johann Friedrich Dieterich. In 1846 he moved to Munich, where he became a private pupil of Eduard Schleich, and often visited the Alte Pinakothek to study the works of the Old Masters.

Together with Friedrich Salzer and Richard Zimmermann, he visited the artists' colonies of Polling and Eberfing. Subsequently he devoted himself entirely to landscape painting, particularly forest scenes. He also visited the Exposition Universelle (1855), where he was first influenced by the Barbizon school. Later he accompanied Schleich and Carl Morgenstern on study trips to France, Belgium and the Netherland...