Christian Bregazzi

He was the son of an Italian painter, Giovanni Maria Alioso Bregazzi, and Johanna Dorothea Becherer.

In 1860 he opened a photographic studio in Bad Langensalza, which after his death was continued by his son Ferdinand under the old name, C.

He became nationally known through his handwritten, consecutively numbered landscape photographs of the nearby locations of the Battle of Lagensalza in 1866.

Later his photographs were sold in the larger cabinet card format and carried a blind stamp with the details of the artist.

The Bregazzis operated at the highest level and Christian's descendants formed a famous photographic dynasty in Thuringia and Hesse.