Christian Köhler

Christian Köhler (13 October 1809 – 30 January 1861) was a German painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting.

For the Canadian politician, see Christian Kohler.

Erwachende Germania, 1849
Othello mit seiner schlafenden Frau, 1859

Life

Köhler became acquainted with the painter Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow as the stableboy of the writer Heinrich Clauren.[1] He followed him—as had Eduard Bendemann, Heinrich Mücke, and Karl Ferdinand Sohn—from Berlin to Düsseldorf and became part of his closest circle of students. In late 1827 he enrolled in the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf arts academy; he joined the master class there in 1837–38. In 1837 he took part in an exhibition of Düsseldorf artists at the Palais Brühl in Dresden, at which the term "Düsseldorf school" arose.[2]

References
  1. Baumgärtel 2011b, p. 41.
  2. Baumgärtel 2011a, p. 142.

Works cited
  • Baumgärtel, Bettina (2011). Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819–1918. 1. Michael Imhof Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9.
  • Baumgärtel, Bettina (2011). Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819–1918. 2. Michael Imhof Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9.
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