Friedrich Heyser
Illustration — Portrait of a Lady with a Wreath of Flowers, 1898 • Illustration — Nymphe Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser (September 12, 1857 in Gnoien – September 7, 1921 in Dresden) was a German portrait, landscape, and history painter. • Illustration — Ophelia, c.1900
Also recorded as Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser
Friedrich Heyser
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- Full name
- Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser.
- Born
- 1857. · Gnoien.
- Died
- 1921. · Dresden.
- Nationality
- Germany.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Education
- Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe and Académie Julian.
- Teachers
- Ferdinand Keller, Viktor Paul Mohn and Leon Pohle.
- Languages
- German.
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Illustration — Portrait of a Lady with a Wreath of Flowers, 1898 • Illustration — Nymphe Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser (September 12, 1857 in Gnoien – September 7, 1921 in Dresden) was a German portrait, landscape, and history painter. • Illustration — Ophelia, c.1900
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Friedrich Heyser studied at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe and Académie Julian. Training under Ferdinand Keller, Viktor Paul Mohn and Leon Pohle is recorded. The recorded working language is German. Work by Friedrich Heyser is recorded in the collections of Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Museum Wiesbaden.
Friedrich Heyser studied from 1880 to 1883 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden as a student of Leon Pohle and Paul Mohn. From 1883 to 1885, he studied with Ferdinand Keller at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. In 1890 he briefly attended the Académie Julian in Paris. He lived and worked in Berlin, Bad Harzburg, and Dresden. Heyser was a member of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft and the artist group Grün-Weiss (green and white are the state colors of Saxony) formed around 1910. Members of the Grün-Weiß group included painters Max Frey, Josef Goller, Georg Jahn, Walther Illner, Georg Lührig, Max Pietschmann, Paul von Schlippenbach, Bernhard Schröter, Johann Walter-Kurau, sculptors Richard Guhr, Hans Hartmann-McLean, Heinrich Wedemeyer, and architects Rudolf Bitzan, Georg Heinsius von Mayenburg, and Martin Pietzsch. The Grün-Weiß group, a progressive group within the Dresden Art Cooperative, presented their works in the Emil Richter Art Salon starting October 29, 1910. From today's perspective, the Grün-Weiß was a moderate attempt to bring movement into the conservative structures of the Dresden Art Cooperative.
Works
Works
Friedrich Heyser created numerous portraits of well-known personalities as well as genre-like depictions, often based on German poetry. In the last years of his life he created some landscape paintings from the island of Föhr and Friesland. In 2025, Heyser's painting Ophelia was referenced in Taylor Swift's music video for her song, "The Fate of Ophelia". The incident brought attention to the artist and drew fans to see painting in the Museum Wiesbaden. Portraits • 1886: Gustav zu Putlitz • Friedrich von Bodenstedt • 1888: Joseph Joachim • 1890: Hermann Wislicenus • 1895 (circa): Julius Stinde • 1898 (circa): Georg Schumann • 1906 (circa): Claire von Glümer • 1906: Prince Albert of Prussia • 1909: Richard_Schleinitz • 1910 (circa): Armbruster (sculptor) • Adolf Fischer-Gurig • Prince and Princess Johann Georg of Saxony Genre-like depictions • 1886: The Fisherman (after Goethe) • 1887: Der Blumen Rache (after Freiligrath) • 1891: The Peri at Heaven's Gate • Gloria in Excelsis • 1900 (circa): Ophelia
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Gnoien.
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Dresden.
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Awards
• Prize of the Academic Senate for the execution of two murals in the meeting room of the Gewandhaus in Bautzen (ex aequo Georg Schwenk). • 1901: Small golden plaquette, International Art Exhibition Dresden 1901.
Literature
• Ernst Sigismund:. In: Hans Vollmer (ed.): Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 17: Heubel–Hubard. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 41. • Heyser, Friedrich. In: Friedrich Jansa: German artists in words and pictures. Verlag Friedrich Jansa, Leipzig 1912, p. 264 with ill. • Hermann Alexander Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer:. In:. 3rd Edition. 2nd volume, 1st half. Rütten & Luenning, Frankfurt am Main 1896, p. 176 (Text Archive - Internet Archive). • Heyser, Friedrich. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: Painting works of the 19th century. contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheet 31-61: Heideck-Mayer, Louis. Mrs. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 530 (text archive - Internet Archive).
Written on the back (translation): "Friedrich Heyser Dresden", "Lunch in the farmhouse" "No. 300" (no date given)
photo: mine, painting: Friedrich Heyser (1857 - 1921) · Self-photographed
Friedrich Heyser, Old Chapel in Bautzen
photo: mine, painting: Friedrich Heyser (1857 - 1921) · Self-photographed
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- 1.Adolf von Oechelhäuser. Geschichte der Großherzoglichen Badischen Akademie der bildenden Künste. Festschrift zum 50jähringen Stiftungsfest 1904. 1904.
- 2.Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser. In: Stadtarchiv der Landeshauptstadt Dresden: Städtisches Friedhofs-und Bestattungswesen-Krematorium Tolkewitz und Urnenhain; Einäscherungsbücher Dresden 1911–1952, Urkunde 8055. ancestrylibrary.de, abgerufen am 3. November 2025.
- 3.Wladimir Aichelburg: Mitglieder der Allgemeinen Deutschen Kunstgenossenschaft im Jahre 1899, als sich zum letzten Mal der Hauptvorstand in Wien befand, abgerufen am 16. März 2014.
- 4.Willy Doenges. Ausstellungen – Dresden. 1910.
- 5.Ausstellung der Gruppe Grün-Weiß Dresdner Kunstgenossenschaft: 29. Oktober 1910. 1910.
- 6.Kristiāna Ābele. Johann Walter (Walter-Kurau) 1869–1932. Summary of the Doctoral Dissertation. 2010. 978-9934-8038-7-1.
- 7.Nils Minkmar. Später Hype um Ophelia. Taylor Swift inszeniert in einem Video zu ihrem Song „The Fate of Ophelia“ ein Gemälde von Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser – und das Museum Wiesbaden wird überrannt. Ein Besuch. 2025-10-21.
- 8.Die Wiederauferstehung der Ophelia.
- 9.Das Gemälde Ophelia war Teil einer Trilogie und wurde in den Dreißigerjahren durch einen Kölner Sammler als Einzelstück erworben, weil ihm die Frauen auf den anderen beiden Werken zu nackt waren. Am 31. Mai 2014 wurde das Gemälde in der Sendung Kunst und Krempel besprochen. Im Juli 2017 wurde das Werk in einer Auktion vom Sammler Ferdinand Wolfgang Neess für 12.700 Euro erworben. Die Sammlung Ferdinand Wolfgang Neess gelangte kurz danach als Schenkung ans Museum Wiesbaden. Seitdem hängt das Gemälde Ophelia von Friedrich Heyser im Landesmuseum Wiesbaden. (Siehe Nils Minkmar, Später Hype um Ophelia: Taylor Swift inszeniert in einem Video ein Gemälde von Friedrich Heyser - und das Museum Wiesbaden wird überrannt, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 22. Oktober 2025, S. 1.)
- 10.Aus unserer Studienmappe : Komponist Georg Schumann. Nach der Pastellstudie von Friedrich Heyser. 1898. 0176-9014.
- 11.Aurich. Carl Franz Adolf Fischer (Fischer-Gurig). 2007.
- 12.Jubiläums-Ausstellung der Kgl. Akademie der Künste im Landes-Ausstellungsgebäude zu Berlin : von Mai bis October 1886, illustrirter Katalog. 1886.
- 13.Friedrich Pecht. Die erste Münchener Jahres-Ausstellung 1889 : X. Aquarelle, Pastelle, Zeichnungen und architektonische Entwürfe. 1889.
- 14.Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung veranstaltet vom Verein Berliner Künstler anlässlich seines fünfzigjährigen Bestehens 1841–1891 : Katalog. 1891.
- 15.Official catalogue of exhibitors. Universal exposition, St. Louis, U.S.A. 1904 : Division of exhibits : Department B – Art. 1904.
- 16.Katalog der Großen Aquarell-Ausstellung Dresden 1909. 1909.
- 17.Willy Doenges. Ausstellungen – Dresden. 1911.
- 18.Personal- und Ateliernachrichten – Dresden. 1900.
- 19.Personal- und Ateliernachrichten – Dresden. 1901.
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