Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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painter
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Place of Birth: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur
- Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur (18 August 1780 in Stuttgart – 6 February 1857 in Stuttgart) was a painter and an officer in the army of the Kingdom of Württemberg.
- He first devoted himself to painting, but subsequently became a soldier, and as a lieutenant in the 25th Division (the Württemberg unit) of the III Corps of Napoleon's Grande Armée, served in the French invasion of Russia, which he sketched as it progressed.
- His sketches were exhibited in 1816, and subsequently he used them to produce color plates, and then in 1831-44 published some of them, with text, in a work entitled Blatter aus meinem Portefeuille im Laufe des Feldzugs 1812,.
- His most noteworthy paintings are The Passage of the Beresina, a work of great merit, and The Coffee-House at Wilna.
- He attained the rank of general in 1849.
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