Richard Friese (15 December 1854 – 29 June 1918) was a German

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and

landscape painter Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a cohe ...

Biography

He was born in

Gumbinnen Gusev (; ; ; ) is a town and the administrative center of Gusevsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Pissa and Krasnaya Rivers, near the border with Poland and Lithuania, east of Chernyakhovsk. It is p ...

. He studied at the Academy in Berlin, where, after traveling in the orient, in

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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

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's life in the

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, and also of the native

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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 Bad Zwischenahn (; ) is a town and a municipality in the low-lying Ammerland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is on Zwischenahner Meer, approximately 15 km northwest of Oldenburg and about 70 km south of the North Sea coast. His ...

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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* * 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 {{Germany-painter-stub

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