Johann Oskar Hermann Freese was a,Pomeranian artist. He emphasized animals and hunting scenes.

Personal life

He was born in

Pomerania Pomerania ( pl, Pomorze; german: Pommern; Kashubian: ''Pòmòrskô''; sv, Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany. The western part of Pomerania belongs to ...

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 Carl Constantin Heinrich Steffeck (4 April 1818, Berlin – 11 July 1890, Königsberg) was a German painter and graphic artist. He was especially well known for his paintings of horses and dogs. Life He was the son of a "gentleman of independ ...

in Berlin.

Art

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 The National Gallery (german: Nationalgalerie) in Berlin, Germany, is a museum for art of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. It is part of the Berlin State Museums. From the Alte Nationalgalerie, which was built for it and opened in 1876, its exh ...

Death

He died at Hessenfelde, near Fürstenwald, in 1871, of

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, which he contracted while trying to cross a river.

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1813 births 1864 deaths 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters German hunters People from Pomerania {{Germany-painter-stub

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