Hermann Frobenius (painter)
Hermann Frobenius (also Herman Frobenius ; born April 30, 1871 in Erfurt , † March 13, 1954 in Bad Reichenhall ) was a German painter and writer.
He was the son of Hermann Frobenius and the brother of the ethnologist Leo Frobenius . In 1915 he married the divorced Else von Boetticher , b. Gaehtgens, from Riga. After the divorce in 1921, he married her second cousin in 1922, the German national journalist Lenore Ripke-Kühn . After the divorce in 1926, two more marriages followed.
Frobenius studied in Rome and Florence, frequented the circles of Arnold Böcklin and Hans von Marées and settled in Munich as a painter. In 1914 he was briefly in Kötschenbroda near Dresden, then in Berlin. Inspired by trips to Algiers , Tunis, Egypt and Sudan , he created many oriental scenes.
Fonts
- Through hardship and death: accounts from the World War 1914. With co-worker from Hermann Frobenius jun. total and edit by Hermann Frobenius, 2 vols. Vienna / Leipzig 1914.
literature
- Ilse Frobenius: A painter named Herman Frobenius. Outline of his artistic life. 1979, ISBN 978-3-98002950-6 .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Frobenius, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frobenius, Herman |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1954 |
| Place of death | Bad Reichenhall |