Hermann Freye

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Georg Hermann Freye (born October 14, 1844 in Dresden , † September 11, 1921 in Liegau ) was a German painter of religious and historical pictures as well as draftsman.

Life

Hermann Freye was a cousin of Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann and was promoted by them for a while. Carl Hauptmann lent the main character of his novel Einhart, published in 1907, the features of Hermann Freye.

After studying at the Royal Saxon Art Academy in Dresden from 1859 to 1864, he went to Antwerp and Paris for some time, where he personally met outstanding examples of contemporary history painting and painters such as Joseph van Lerius and Léon Bonnat .

His first larger commissioned work was his participation in the painting of the court theater in Dresden. From 1878 he dealt exclusively with religious painting. His best-known paintings include The Repentance of the Forsaken Son and The Crucified Christ , which were created in 1883 and 1889 and were distributed as copies several times.

In 1891 he was appointed head of the lower class at the Dresden Art Academy. In 1893 he was appointed professor there. In 1904, at the age of 60, he retired, which he spent on the outskirts of Dresden in Klotzsche-Königswald, Goethestrasse 14.

Works

Some of his works are now kept in the Kupferstichkabinett in Dresden.

Student (selection)

Honors

  • 1890 Honorary Diploma from the International Watercolor Exhibition in Dresden

literature

  • Degener: who is it? , 1909, p. 396.
  • Dresden. From the Royal Art Academy to the College of Fine Arts (1764-1989) , ed. from the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden 1990, p. 181ff.
  • Thieme, Becker: Vol. 12, Leipzig 1999, p. 445.

Web links

  • Gernot Klatte: Freye, Georg Hermann. In: Saxon Biography , published by the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore eV, online edition: [1] (accessed on March 8, 2017)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Masterpieces of Art. Painting from AZ . Chur 1994, p. 525
  2. ↑ Figure
personal data
SURNAME Freye, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freye, Georg Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1921
Place of death Liegau