Emil Freshness

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Emil Freshness (born February 6, 1872 in Düsseldorf , † after 1916) was a German painter of everyday scenes and still lifes .

As the son of the landscape painter Heinrich Ludwig Freshness , Emil Freshness grew up in Düsseldorf. Like his father, he attended the art academy there as a master student of Claus-Meyer .

Emil Freshness, who stayed in Florence for a longer period of time, painted genre pictures, portraits , interiors and preferred still lifes. His older brother was the sculptor Arnold Freshness .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Freshness, Emil . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 495 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Freshness, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH after 1916