Friedrich Preller the Younger

Ferdinand Bellermann is recorded as having studied under Friedrich Preller the Younger. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are marine. Residence is recorded at Blasewitz and Dresden. Employment is recorded with Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Work by Friedrich Preller the Younger is recorded in the collections of Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, National Museum in Warsaw, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Führermuseum and Alte Nationalgalerie. Distinctions recorded are Geheimrat and Albert Order.

He was born in Weimar as the youngest son of the painter, etcher and art professor Friedrich Preller the Elder. From the age of thirteen, he worked in his father's studio, where he received his first lessons. In 1859, he travelled to Italy with his father and, in 1862, undertook several excursions to the coast of Sicily and Naples to see the original landscapes he had read about in the Odyssey. In 1864, he took another trip to Italy, returning to Dresden in 1866, where he established his own studio. Ten years later, he enjoyed his first artistic successes and began attracting commissions. In 1880, he became a professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. He continued to travel extensively, taking study trips to Rügen and Greece as well as Italy. He died in Blasewitz in 1901. Most of his larger works were destroyed during the fire-bombing of Dresden in 1945. The loss included a series of murals on Greek mythological themes (Oedipus, Achilles, Hercules and the Golden Fleece) in the Semperoper; and others depicting Prometheus in the Albertinum. His daughter Lucie married the sculptor Richard König. Together, they wrote a biography of her father, including texts that Preller himself had written as a young man.