Eduard Frederich, born at

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

in 1813, attended the Academy at Düsseldorf from 1836 to 1843, and studied in particular landscape and

genre painting Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity can be attache ...

, which he, however, changed afterwards for scenes of encampments and manoeuvres. He was

court painter A court painter was an artist who painted for the members of a royal or princely family, sometimes on a fixed salary and on an exclusive basis where the artist was not supposed to undertake other work. Painters were the most common, but the cour ...

, and died at Hanover in 1864.

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* 1813 births 1864 deaths 19th-century German painters German male painters Court painters Artists from Hanover Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni 19th-century German male artists {{Germany-painter-stub

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