DIES, CHRISTOPH ALBERT German painter, was born at Hanover, and learned the rudiments of art in his native place. For one year he studied in the academy of Dusseldorf, and then he started, at the age of 20, with 3o ducats in his pocket, for Rome. There he lived a frugal life till 1796. He published, in partnership with Meehan, Reinhardt and Frauenholz, the series of plates known as the Collection de vues pittoresques de l'Italie, published in 72 sheets at Nuremberg in 1799. In 1787 he swallowed by mistake three-quarters of an ounce of sugar of lead. His recovery from this poison was slow and incomplete, and he eventually lost the use of one of his hands. He died at Vienna in 1822, after years of suffering.