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Richard Friese (15 December 1854 – 29 June 1918) was a German
animal
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and
landscape painter
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composi ...
.
Biography
He was born in
Gumbinnen
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. He studied at the
Academy in Berlin, where, after traveling in the orient, in
Norway
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, and as far as the polar regions, he rapidly acquired his present reputation as one of the best animal painters in Germany, especially noted for his vivid delineations of the
lion's life in the
desert, and also of the native
deer
Deer or true deer are hoofed ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The two main groups of deer are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the elk (wapiti), the red deer, and the fallow deer; and the Capreolinae, including the re ...
world in the German forest. He was awarded a gold medal in 1886, and elected a member of the Berlin Academy in 1892. He died in 1918 in
Bad Zwischenahn
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.
Works
His most noteworthy productions include:
* “Lions Surprising Caravan's Camp” (1884), Dresden Gallery
* “Elks on Field of Battle” (1890), National Gallery, Berlin
* “In the Bredszell Moor” (1895), Königsberg Museum
* “A Twenty-pronged Stag under Way,” owned by
Emperor William II
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See also
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List of German painters
This is a list of German painters.
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* Hans von Aachen (1552–1615)
* Aatifi (born 1965)
* Karl Abt (1899–1985)
* Tomma Abts (born 1967)
* Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910)
* Oswald Achenbach (1827 ...
References
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1854 births
1918 deaths
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
Prussian Academy of Arts alumni
People from Gusev
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