Otto Viktor Frölicher (5 June 1840 in Solothurn – 2 November 1890 in

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) was a Swiss landscape painter.

Life

His father worked for the local government. In 1859, he enrolled at the

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, and became a student of landscape painting under

Johann Gottfried Steffan Johann Gottfried Steffan (December 13, 1815 – June 16, 1905) was a Swiss landscape artist,Franz Zelger. Steffan, Johann Gottfried. ''Grove Art Online'' (Oxford University Press; 2003) regarded as one of the most important Swiss landscapists ...

. Four years later, he moved to

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, where he came under the influence of Oswald Achenbach. After going home to Solothurn, he found that he was unable to earn a living as a painter there and returned to Munich and discovered a new influence,

Adolf Heinrich Lier Adolf Heinrich Lier (21 May 1826, Herrnhut - 30 September 1882, Vahrn) was a German landscape painter. Life and work He was the son of a goldsmith from Mecklenburg. At the age of fifteen (after a problematic youth that included three years i ...

. In 1876, he travelled to Paris on the recommendation of Lier, but was not able to adapt to big city life and, a year later, returned to Munich which, at that time, had barely 200,000 people. He was a member of several major artists' associations and served as a judge for exhibitions at the Glaspalast. Also, he was chairman of an organization devoted to the interests of Swiss artists residing in Munich. At the age of thirty-nine, he suffered a bout with

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, which left him in permanent ill-health. Later, he was diagnosed with cancer. Contemporary sources, however, give his cause of death as a "groin disease" (contracted while painting in the wild?) that led to

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Selected paintings

File:Froelicher muehle.jpg, Mill on a Stream File:Froelicher solothurn.jpg, View of Solothurn File:Frölicher Hübeli Attisholz 1868.jpg, Hübeli (

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), near Attisholz

References

External links

ArtNet: More paintings by Frölicher
{{DEFAULTSORT:Frolicher, Otto 19th-century Swiss painters Swiss male painters 1840 births 1890 deaths Landscape painters 19th-century Swiss male artists Düsseldorf school of painting

Life

Selected paintings

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