Chrystian Breslauer (born 12 January 1802 in
Warsaw
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; died there 10 August 1882) was a Polish painter and art
pedagogue
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.
Chrystian Breslauer studied in
Berlin
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and
Düsseldorf
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, where he was taught by Johann Wilhelm Schrirmer. He took numerous art travels around
Germany
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, the
Scandinavia
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n countries, he was also in
Italy
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. During his art travels, he was introduced to new painting types. From 1845, he lived permanently in
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is official ...
. He was a
pedagogue
Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...
at the School of Fine Arts (from the year of 1846), and held private art classes (between 1865 and 1868).
Selected paintings
File:Breslauer-Krajobraz górski-1847.jpg, ''Mountain landscape''
(1847)
File:Christian Breslauer Mountain landscape.jpg, ''Mountain landscape''
(c. 1882)
File:Breslauer Das-kloster-maria-laach-bei-vollmond-im-vordergrund-zwei-von-einem-juengling-mit-laterne-begleitete-geistliche.jpg, ''Monastery Maria Lach at the full moon''
(c. 1882)
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1802 births
1882 deaths
19th-century Polish painters
19th-century Polish male artists
Polish male painters
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