Friedrich Lange (29 October 1834,

Plau am See Plau am See () is a town in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated 28 km east of Parchim, and 29 km west of Waren. Around 1235 the city was called Plawe, that being the Polabian fi ...

– 18 July 1875, Strasbourg) was a German history painter and member of the

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Life

Friedrich Lange, son of a court clerk, spent the first years of his life in Plau, then in

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, where his father had been transferred. He had six siblings, including a younger brother who studied music in

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. He completed his painting apprenticeship with Gaston Lenthe (1805–1860) in

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. He then went to the art academy in Dresden, where he studied diligently for five years as a student at the academy. There he was also four years special student with Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. In 1859, Lange received a gold medal for ''The Entombment of Christ'' at the Dresden Art Exhibition. From 1859 to 1862, he lived in

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on a grant from Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II, where he was a member of the Lukasbund and the German Artists' Association. Lange lived in Schwerin from April to October 1862, where two small commissioned works were created. He then moved on to

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, and Northern Italy. One of his daughters was the painter and artisan Laura Lange, who ran a studio together with Martha von Kranz in

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. 1834 births 1875 deaths German romantic painters Nazarene painters German history painters 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists Romantic painters {{Germany-painter-stub