Christian Friedrich Gille

Christian Friedrich Gille, born in 1805 in Ballenstedt am Harz, is considered to be one of the seminal landscape painters of the 19th century. Gille lived a life of great poverty and remained largely unknown. His contemporaries did not really paid attention to him. He started as the most talented studio student of Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Cars and Johan Christian Dahl. Gilles work represents the new relationship to nature of Romanticism at the beginning of the century and later led to modernism in the late 19th century in his unconventional oil studies in front of nature, with which the artist directly translated subjective visual experiences into painting. Gille died in 1899 in Wahnsdorf, Germany.