Christiane Schreiber

Edele Christiane Margrethe Schreiber (4 October 1822, Voss - 23 November 1898, Oslo) was a Norwegian painter, known primarily for her portraits.

[1] Her father Peter August Schreiber (1788-1865) was originally from Roskilde, Denmark and came to Norway as a military officer.

[3] Later, together with Aasta Hansteen, she was one of the first female students admitted to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where she studied with Adolph Tidemand from 1854 to 1855.

Then, until 1857, she was in Paris, where she worked with Jean-Baptiste-Ange Tissier and briefly formed an artists' colony with Ribbing, Hansteen, Marie Aarestrup, Amalia Lindegren and others.

Among the portraits she completed at that time were those of King Oscar I and his wife, Queen Josephine of Leuchtenberg.