Heinrich Ludwig Freshness

Heinrich Ludwig Freshness

Fisherman on a rocky shore (undated)

Heinrich Ludwig Freshness (born January 9, 1831 in Altenbruch , † December 5, 1901 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

Born in Altenbruch near Cuxhaven, Heinrich Ludwig Freshness, after training in Hamburg as a decorative painter and self-taught studies, initially went on short trips, which he financed with his work as a portrait draftsman and painter. From 1858 to 1862 he then attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy as a student of Hans Gude . With the exception of study trips , Freshness stayed in Düsseldorf and was a member of the Malkasten Artists' Association from 1864/65 to 1901 . He was married. Of his sons, Arnold Frisch (* 1869 in Düsseldorf) was a student at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts from 1884 to 1887 and, after a few trips, from 1890 to 1896 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he trained as a painter, but mainly as a sculptor. In addition to portrait busts and grave monuments, he created a. a. a war memorial for Ratingen (1898), the three emperors memorial in Wanne (Herne) (1901) and sculptures for the building of the Knappschaftsverein in Bochum . Another son, Emil Frisch (* 1872 in Düsseldorf), was a pupil of Claus Meyer at the Düsseldorf Academy and stayed in Florence for a long time . His works include portraits, interiors, still lifes and figure scenes, with which he is at the exhibitions a. a. in Düsseldorf (1908, 1909, 1912, 1913, 1915), Berlin (1910) and Munich (1908, 1912).

Work and exhibitions

Heinrich Ludwig Freshness created “well-composed” landscape views of the Harz Mountains and later also of the English coast , Tyrol and Switzerland . The contemporary press praised the harmonious effect of his compositions, whose expressive mood he achieved through strong colors. He has shown his work in Düsseldorf since 1862 - including at the exhibitions of the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1872 and 1899 and the major art exhibitions from 1893 to 1896 - as well as in Berlin , Braunschweig , Bremen , Dresden , Hamburg , Hanover , Magdeburg and Vienna . During the First World War, paintings were in the museums of Cologne , Hanover, Magdeburg, Prague and Rostock .

• Harz landscape with brushwood collector (1862), art trade
• Motif from Brocken , Harz landscape , Breslau Art Exhibition 1869 (organized by the Silesian Art Association in the premises of the Silesian Fatherland Society [Blücherplatz in the stock exchange building], opened on May 23, Breslau [1869], No. 150 and No. 151)
• After the rain (illustration in the dictionary of the Düsseldorf School of Painting, Volume 1)
• Heathland , Hanover, Lower Saxony State Museum
• Harz landscape , Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud

Fonts

• Personal curriculum vitae, Düsseldorf 1887, paint box archive

literature

• Intellectual Germany at the end of the 19th century. Encyclopedia of German intellectual life in biographical sketches. Volume 1: The visual artists. Leipzig, Berlin 1898, pp. 204-205.
• Freshness, Heinrich Ludwig. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 335 ( archive.org ).
• Ernst Rump (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the visual artists Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Hamburg 1912.
• Freshness, Heinrich Ludwig . 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 ).
• Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists. Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / Main, Volume 1, 1921.
• Emanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Volume 4, 1976.
• Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , pp. 377-378 (fig.).

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Ludwig frisch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Freshness, Heinrich Ludwig . 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 ).