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Gille, Christian Friedrich
(b Ballenstedt am Harz, 20 March 1805; d Wahnsdorf, nr Dresden, 9 July 1899). German painter, engraver and lithographer. Between 1825 and 1833 he studied engraving under Johann Gottfried Abraham Frenzel, lithography under Louis Zöllner and painting under Johan Christian Dahl at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden. Dahl encouraged in Gille an appreciation for the natural formations and changing conditions of light that had inspired Dahl’s friend and mentor, the Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. Gille, however, did not adopt Friedrich’s tendency to find mystical significance in these phenomena. Gille’s prints are highly descriptive in style and include Saxon landscapes, genre scenes, animal studies and portraits of celebrated men. His paintings and sketches, in oils, watercolour and pen and brown ink, were mostly of landscapes, many with animal staffage. His style changed relatively little over the years, and few of the paintings are dated.
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