Johann Georg Christian Frye
Johann Georg Christian Frye (* around 1750 in Osnabrück ; † November 24, 1824 in Tivoli ) was a German landscape painter .
According to his entry in the Thieme-Becker, Frye is said to have been the illegitimate descendant of a member of the House of Hanover and to have received a pension from the English royal family. A portrait engraving of his Osnabrück teacher Christian Ludolph Reinhold from 1775 has survived .
He received his further training in Dresden and from there went to Rome in April 1788 with the painter Karl Gottlieb Lenz . There he mainly painted vedutas of the Albanian Mountains and the area around Tivoli. His friends included the art theorist Carl Ludwig Fernow and the artists Morace, Fedor, Friedrich Weinbrenner and Johann Martin von Rohden .
At the beginning of the 19th century he got into economic hardship and was supported in the last few years by the host Coccanari of the (still existing) Osteria Sibilla in Tivoli, who was the father-in-law of his artist friend von Rohden. He died of dropsy .
literature
- Friedrich Noack: Frye, Johann Georg Christian in: Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of Visual Artists , Volume 12, Leipzig 1916, p. 541
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait index
- ↑ possibly Ernest Morace
- ↑ probably Fedor Ivanovich (around 1765–1832); Thieme-Becker, Volume 11, pp. 337/338
- ↑ www.ristorantesibilla.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frye, Johann Georg Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1750 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osnabrück |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 24, 1824 |
| Place of death | Tivoli |