Friedrich Frisch

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Carl Friedrich Frisch (born February 13, 1813 in Darmstadt ; † December 7, 1886 there ) was a German animal painter .

Life

His parents were the grand ducal court jeweler and coin engraver Johann Carl Frisch (1776–1816) and Sibylle, nee. Houses. From 1827 Friedrich Frisch trained as a goldsmith in Karlsruhe . On the recommendation of Wilhelm von Harnier , he moved to Munich in 1831 to study animal painting. In 1837 he returned to Darmstadt, where he was appointed court painter by Grand Duke Ludwig II in 1840 . Between 1840 and 1851 he took part in expeditions lasting several years. In the years 1840/1841 he accompanied the Württemberg chamberlain Wilhelm von Taubenheim , the writer Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer and the doctor Karl Bopp (1817–1847) on a trip to the Orient . Frisch documented this journey in the lithographic panel series Arabia . Another trip took him to the Caucasus .

As an animal painter, Frisch specialized in depicting dogs and horses. He often worked with Carl Seeger , who took over the landscape parts of his paintings. His clients included the courtyards of Darmstadt , Coburg and Württemberg . He completed the painting Ibrahim Pascha's army retreat through the desert in 1842 on behalf of Charles of Württemberg .

Frisch taught at the higher trade school and secondary school in Darmstadt. Eugen Bracht was one of his students . In 1840 he married Elisabeth Friederike Agnes Flachsland (1814–1888). Through his daughter Emmy (1849–1924), who married the gynecologist Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer , Frisch became the grandfather of the art historian Hugo Kehrer .

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  1. a b c Raimond Selke: Frisch, Friedrich . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 45, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22785-X , p. 257.
  2. ^ Friedrich Frisch: Arabia. Sketches from the Orient, collected in 1840 and 1841. Drawn from nature and on stone. Kern, Darmstadt 1842 - cf. Reiss & Sohn: Auction 186: 15. – 16. November 2017. Königstein im Taunus 2017, p. 34, no. 2006 ( PDF )
  3. Bernd Küster: Eugen Bracht 1842–1921 . Museum Giersch, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-935283-10-6 , p. 12.