Chrystian Breslauer (born 12 January 1802 in

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; died there 10 August 1882) was a Polish painter and art

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 as ...

. Chrystian Breslauer studied in

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and

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, where he was taught by Johann Wilhelm Schrirmer. He took numerous art travels around

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, the

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n countries, he was also in

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. During his art travels, he was introduced to new painting types. From 1845, he lived permanently in

. He was a

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 {{Poland-painter-stub