Hermann Freese
Illustration — Portrait of Freese from 1870 • Illustration — Hunting wild boars Johann Oskar Hermann Freese was a Pomeranian artist. He emphasized animals and hunting scenes.
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Hermann Freese
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- Died
- 1871 · Hasenfelde.
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- Germany
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- painter
- Languages
- German
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He was born in Pomerania in 1813. He was expected by his father to be a farmer, in spite of his early inclination to art. At age 34 he devoted himself to painting. He visited the studio of Wilhelm Brücke, then that of Carl Steffeck in Berlin.
Art
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In 1857 his first work, Stags Fighting, appeared. His subjects were principally hunting, which he loved passionately. Among his works are Deer Fleeing, Stags attacked by Wolves and a Boar Hunt, all in the Berlin National Gallery.
Death
Death
He died at Hessenfelde, near Fürstenwald, in 1871, of brain fever, which he contracted while trying to cross a river.
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Hermann Freese (1819 – 1871) was a painter. Both events are recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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Angermünde.
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- 1.Freese, Hermann (Joh. Oscar Herm.). 12. 409. 410.
- 2.Adolf Rosenberg. Die neuere Geschichts-, Bildniss- und Genremalerei in Berlin. 1889.
- 3.Freese, Johann Oscar Hermann. 1886.
- 4.Freese, Joh. Oscar Hermann. 322.
- 5.Freese, Joh. Oscar Hermann, Thier- und Jagdmaler. 475.
- 6.Freese. Freese, Hermann, Maler.
- 7.Freese (Hermann), Tiermaler. 1884.
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