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Johann Oskar Hermann Freese was a,Pomeranian artist. He emphasized animals and hunting scenes.
Johann Oskar Hermann Freese was a,Pomeranian artist. He emphasized animals and hunting scenes.
Personal life
He was born inPomerania
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 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 theBerlin 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 ex ...
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Death
He died at Hessenfelde, near Fürstenwald, in 1871, of brain fever, which he contracted while trying to cross a river.See also
*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 ...
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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