Christian Breslauer

The Maria Laach monastery under the full moon, in the foreground two clergymen accompanied by a youth with a lantern

Karl Christian Breslauer , also Chrystian Breslauer (born January 12, 1802 in Warsaw , † August 10, 1882 there ), was a Warsaw landscape painter .

Life

Breslauer came to Berlin in 1820 , attended grammar school there and studied painting at the art academy at the same time . He then worked for the decorative and theater painters Carl Blechen and Karl Wilhelm Gropius . From 1832 to 1836 he was enrolled in the landscape class of the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer . He toured Germany, Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Finland), Tyrol, Italy , France and Turkey. In 1839 he went traveling with Andreas Achenbach and Thomas Fernley . In 1845 he was back in Norway. In the 1840s he worked on pictures for the interior of Stolzenfels Castle on the Rhine on behalf of the Prussian king . With his work he participated u. a. at the annual exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Berlin, including Burg Bürresheim and Heiligenhäuschen in Tiefenbach (Berlin 1832), Limburg an der Lahn (Düsseldorf 1832), rocky landscape (Düsseldorf and Berlin 1834), Heidelberg castle ruins (Berlin 1834) or part near Ramsau in the Bavarian high mountains (Berlin 1844), as well as in Frankfurt / M. with Rhenish landscape and castle ruins (1839). In Warsaw in 1841 he exhibited Mühle bei Weilburg . From 1845 he lived permanently in Warsaw, where he took part in an exhibition with four pictures; For his painting Sunset he received a gold medal and a scholarship of 200 ducats, with which he traveled to Lithuania in 1846 and then to Italy until 1848. In the Palazzo Pitti in Florence he copied landscapes by Ruisdael and Salvator Rosa for the Warsaw Academy and visited Rome, Naples and Palermo.

In 1846 he was offered a professorship for landscape painting at the Warsaw Art School , which he followed in 1848. In 1856 he was appointed professor for "landscape drawing, perspective and shadow constructions" and from 1865 to 1868 he headed the drawing class. His students included almost all the important Polish landscape painters of the 2nd half of the 19th century, a. a. Wojciech Gerson , Franciszek Kostrzewski and Józef Szermentowski .

Works

He painted precise, often deserted landscapes. His later landscapes from the area around Warsaw, from Trocki and Wilna in Lithuania, Ojców near Krakau (1861) and from the Salzkammergut as well as studies that were made on the occasion of renewed trips to Finland ( Finnish landscape , art exhibition Warsaw 1871) and Norway are through careful execution as well as characterized by reliable drawing and clear spatial coverage. They continue to document the influence of the Düsseldorf School of Painting , especially that of its Scandinavian representatives. Works by his hand can be found in the art collections of Białystok, Muzeum Okręgowe: View of Vesuvius (1849); Bytom (Beuthen), Muzeum Górnośląskie: Rhine landscape (1849); Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum: represented in Das Goldene Buch ; Kassel, State. Museums, Neue Galerie: Landscape with rock castle ruins (1837); Oslo, Nationalgalerie: Study from Norway (1845); Toruń (Thorn), Muzeum Okręgowe: Landscape with a mill near Weilburg (1839); Warszawa (Warsaw): (1971) 17 oil paintings, including the Trocki Castle in Lithuania , Vilnius suburb Antokol , Italian mountain landscape (1847), view of the castle in Natolin (1852), Nordic landscape with lake and castle (1863), sunset , 31 oil studies on paper as well as 91 watercolors and numerous drawings, u. a. from Italy and Scandinavia; Vilnius (Wilna), Lietuvos dailés muzeum: Landscape (1846) and Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum: Castle on the river .

literature

• Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news from the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Vol. 2, Fleischmann, Munich 1835, p.
• Breslauer, Karl . In: Friedrich von Boetticher: Painters' works of the 19th century, contribution to art history. Vol. 1, Dresden 1891, p. 135.
• Breslauer, Christian . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 586 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Polski Slownik Biograficzny Vol. 2, 1936, p.?.
• J. Milobedzka, Krajobrazy C. Breslauera (The landscapes of C. Breslauers), in: Rocznik Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie (Year of the Warsaw National Museum) 8, 1964, pp. 377-406
• Slownik artystów polskich i obcych Polsce dzialających. Malarze, rzezbiarze, graficy vol. 1, 1971, p.
• Order cat. National Museum Warsaw 1975 (Polish) and 1979 (French), with 4 ills.
• Beek, Theodor van der . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 14, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22754-X .
• Siegfried Weiß , in: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , pp. 189-191 (fig.).
• Ewa Micke-Broniarek: Malarstwo Polskie. Realizm, naturalizm. Wydawnictwo "Arkady", Warszawa 2007, ISBN 978-83-213-4414-0 , p.

Web links

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