Hermann Freese

Portrait of Freese from 1870

Hunting wild boars

Johann Oskar Hermann Freese was a,Pomeranian artist. He emphasized animals and hunting scenes.

Personal life

He was born in Pomerania 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 the Berlin National Gallery.

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

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "FREESE, Johann Oskar Hermann". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

External links

Media related to Hermann Freese at Wikimedia Commons