Johann Jakob Frey

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Frey as the painter of the Lepsius expedition on the Cheops pyramid in 1842.
Frey is in the group at the bottom right.
Frey: "Pine trees on Lake Nemi", around 1840.
"Path in the mountains via Rome", around 1840.

Johann Jakob Frey (born January 27, 1813 in Basel , † September 30, 1865 in Frascati ; resident in Basel) was a Swiss landscape painter .

Live and act

Johann Jakob Frey was born in 1813 as the son of the etcher Samuel Frey (1785–1836) and learned painting from his father during his youth . In addition, Frey learned from the Swiss draftsman Hieronymus Hess .

He later moved to Paris and then in 1834 to Munich , where he was supported by the patron Emilie Linder , which finally enabled Frey to move again, this time to Rome . He then settled permanently in Rome. There he made the acquaintance of personalities such as Joseph Anton Koch , Johann Christian Reinhart , Carl Philipp Fohr and Johann Martin von Rohden . From 1842 to 1845 he took part in the Prussian expedition to Egypt .

He was buried on the Cimitero Acattolico in Rome, where the tombstone with the portrait relief created by his friend Ferdinand Schlöth has been preserved to this day.

Works

Frey traveled a lot through Italy , especially in and around Rome, to make landscape sketches there . In his studio he then developed paintings from these sketches . He also traveled to other countries outside Italy, for example Spain and Egypt , to make sketches for later works.

Frey's painting style is based on that of Joseph Koch or Franz Horny . They often show a foreground that is rich in detail and true to detail , on which elements such as curvy footpaths or rivers can often be seen, which direct the viewer's focus into the drawn distance.

Web links

Commons : Johann Jakob Frey  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franke-Schenk Art Salon: Johann Jakob Frey. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 1, 2015 ; accessed on June 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstsalon-franke-schenk.de
  2. ↑ Stefan Hess , Tomas Lochman (ed.): Classical beauty and patriotic heroism. The Basel sculptor Ferdinand Schlöth (1818–1891) , Basel 2004, p. 192f.
  3. ^ Kiefer auction house: Johann Jakob Frey. Retrieved February 16, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Frey, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frey, Johann Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1865
Place of death Frascati