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Carl Breitbach (1833–1904) was a German painter.
Carl Breitbach (1833–1904) was a German painter.
Biography
He was born inBerlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...
, and was a pupil of the Prussian Academy of Arts in that city, and of Thomas Couture
Thomas Couture (21 December 1815 – 30 March 1879) was a French history painter and teacher. He taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge,Wilkinson, Burke. ''The Life and Works of A ...
in Paris
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. He settled in Berlin, where he devoted himself to landscape, genre
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, and portrait painting.
Works
The following are among his principal works: * "Mill of Saint-Ouen, near Paris" * "Park of Trianon" * "Autumn Evening in the Weser Valley" * "Sunrise in the Bavarian Highlands" * " Kirmess-Joy" * "Kirmess-Woe" * "At the Fortune Teller's" * "In the Village Tavern" He did portraits of Intendant General von Hülsen, the painter Theodor Weber, the writerTheodor Fontane
Theodor Fontane (; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known toda ...
and others.
See also
* List of German paintersNotes
References
* 1833 births 1904 deaths 19th-century German painters German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists Artists from Berlin Prussian Academy of Arts alumni 19th-century German male artists {{Germany-painter-stub