Johan Didrik Frisch (4 May 1835 – 22 November 1867) was a Danish landscape and animal painter.

Biography

Didrik Frisch was born on a farm near

Slagelse Slagelse () is a town on Zealand, Denmark. The town is the seat of Slagelse Municipality, and is the biggest town of the municipality. It is located 15 km east of Korsør, 16 km north-east of Skælskør, 33 km south-east of Kalundborg and 14 km ...

, Denmark. His father was a landowner. He began his education at the Sorø Academy; a private boarding school. While there, perhaps inspired by

Frederik Vermehren Johan Frederik (Frits) Nikolai Vermehren, also known as Frederik Vermehren (12 May 1823 – 10 January 1910), a genre and portrait painter in the realist style. His artistic career took place during the period of Danish art known as the Golden ...

, who was a family friend, he started doing sketches. These drew the attention of the landscape painter Hans Harder, who was sufficiently impressed that he helped him to begin his career as an artist. After some time at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, he went to Paris in 1857 to continue his studies. While there, he began to show his paintings. Originally, he depicted figures, but soon turned to landscapes, then combined the two. By 1866, however, he had decided to devote himself to animal painting and spent a great deal of time painting en

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at the

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(Deer Park). The following year, he received a scholarship from the Academy to study in

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. He briefly visited Rome, then went to Florence, where he took up with his fellow Danish painters, Otto Bache and L.A. Schou. During a

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epidemic later that year, he and Schou were both infected and died in

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within days of each other.

References

External links

ArtNet: More works by Frisch.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Frisch, Didrik 1836 births 1867 deaths People from Slagelse Danish landscape painters Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni 19th-century Danish painters Danish male painters Animal artists 19th-century Danish male artists