Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur

Moscow, 1812, chromolithography from Blatter aus meinem Portefeuille im Laufe des Feldzugs 1812

Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur (1780 in Stuttgart – 1857 in Stuttgart) was a German painter. He first devoted himself to painting, but subsequently became a soldier, and as a lieutenant served in the French invasion of Russia, which he afterwards illustrated by his sketches in a work entitled, Blatter aus meinem Portefeuille im Laufe des Feldzugs 1812, published in 1831–44. His most noteworthy paintings are, The Passage of the Beresina, a work of great merit, and The Coffee-House at Wilna.

Gallery

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  Smolensk, 1812

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  In Beshankovichy

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  In Beshankovichy

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  Joseph Kehringer, drawing ca. 1800 now in the Städtisches Museum Schwäbisch Gmünd

See also

• List of German painters

References

• This article incorporates text from the article "FABER DU FAUR, Christian Wilhelm von" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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