Friedrich Krause-Osten

Friedrich Krause-Osten (born May 9, 1884 in Riga , † February 11, 1966 in Bautzen ) was a German painter .

Life

Friedrich Krause-Osten was born in Riga on May 9, 1884. From 1905 he studied at the State Art Academy in Königsberg . In 1914 he began a study trip through Russia . There he got to know the Russian painter Ilya Repin . After the outbreak of World War I , Krause-Osten was interned as a German citizen in Siberia for four years . After the war he completed his art studies in Königsberg. Study trips took him to Berlin , Silesia and Lusatia . From 1923 until the end of his life (1966) he lived in Bautzen. He was buried in the diving cemetery there.

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Friedrich Krause-Osten is best known as a genre painter . He achieved his artistic breakthrough in 1926 with his oil painting Bagpiper . This picture caused a sensation at the Great Art Exhibition in Berlin and was bought by the government. He received other prizes both in Berlin and Paris . Krause-Ost's pictures give deep insights into the living conditions in Germany in the middle of the 20th century. Many of his pictures are based on people from Lusatia, especially Sorbs .

literature

• Alfred Krautz, Benno Pötschke: Wendish worlds of images . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1999.