Heinrich Froitzheim (painter, 1866)

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Heinrich Froitzheim (born December 21, 1866 in Cologne , † February 29, 1904 in Munich ) was a German figure and history painter of the Düsseldorf and Munich schools .

Life

Cupid shoots his arrow at three nymphs

Froitzheim began studying as a budding sculptor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1888 , where he switched to painting in 1889 at the latest. Hugo Crola and Peter Janssen the Elder were his teachers at the Düsseldorf Academy, which he attended until the school year 1892/1893 . In April 1894 he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich for painting. At the Munich Academy he was a student of Carl von Marr . After graduating, he settled in Munich. On October 24, 1901, he married Katharina (1877–1944), the daughter of the architecture professor at the Technical University of Munich, Heinrich von Schmidt . In 1902 and 1903 Froitzheim exhibited his pictures in the Cologne Artists Exhibition in Cologne. He died in Munich in 1904 at the age of 37. His widow married the Cologne architect Ludwig Paffendorf in 1906 .

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Individual evidence

  1. Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
  2. 01243 Heinrich Froitzheim , register of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
  3. Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser . Justus Perthes, Gotha 1917, p. 861