Bernhard Fries
Bernhard Fries (born May 16, 1820 in Heidelberg , † May 21, 1879 in Munich ) was a German landscape painter .
Life
Bernhard Fries was born in Heidelberg as the son of the wealthy banker, madder manufacturer ( Färberkrapp ) and painting collector Christian Adam Fries . Fries (brother of Ernst Fries ) received his first lessons from the history painter Carl Koopmann in Karlsruhe . From 1835 to 1837 he attended the Munich Academy and in the spring of 1838 went to Italy , where he stayed in Rome from late 1838 to around 1840 and from around 1843 to autumn 1846 . In 1845 he is guaranteed there as a participant in the "Cervaro Festival" of the German Artists' Association . In 1846 he returned to Germany . In the years 1840 to 1843, which interrupted his stay in Rome, he was a student of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's landscape class at the Düsseldorf Academy .
His most important work is the cycle of 40 Italian landscapes, which some have compared with the famous Rottmann cycle, which is Fries' most important model. After its completion in 1866 he created Italian views of Palermo and Die Mamellen (at Schack in Munich), Civitella , Lake Garda, etc. as well as views of Heidelberg and motifs from its surroundings.
He was born into the art-loving Fries banking family, which, in contrast to his colleagues, enabled him to paint and travel without financial worries. His father, the banker and manufacturer Christian Adam Fries, had a very valuable art collection. The collection included 17th century Dutch people , pictures by Lorrain , Poussin , works by Joseph Anton Koch and George Augustus Wallis . He was the nephew of chemistry professor Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner , whose student Justus Liebig was. Fries had been a member of the Heidelberg Masonic Lodge Ruprecht zu den five Rosen since 1857
A rich collection of drawings and sketchbooks is privately owned by a descendant in Germany. His paintings are represented in various museums, e.g. B. the large picture galleries and copper engraving cabinets in Darmstadt , Halle , Karlsruhe, Munich ( Neue Pinakothek and Schackgalerie ), Stuttgart and Zurich . The Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg has a comprehensive collection of works by Bernhard Fries.
Fries' Italian landscapes show great composition and broad treatment, while the more recent German landscapes are very carefully executed. He died on May 21, 1879 in Munich.
Works (selection)
- A distant view of the Montblanc
- View of Lake Como
- The rocky gorge near Nemi
- Lake Geneva
- The Neckarthal
- The surroundings of Heidelberg
- A storm
literature
- General Artist Lexicon, Vol. 55, 2005, p. 194.
- Hyacinth Holland : Fries, Bernhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 142 f.
- Arthur von Schneider: Fries, Jacob Daniel Georg Gottlieb Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 603 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, pp. 190 f.
- ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 144
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fries, Bernhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fries, Bernhardt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 1879 |
| Place of death | Munich |