Julius Freymuth

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Julius Freymuth (born July 8, 1881 in Cologne , † October 1, 1961 in Nussdorf am Inn ) was a German landscape painter , draftsman and graphic artist who worked primarily in East Prussia .

Life

Freymuth received an artistic training at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts and at the Königsberg Art Academy . After 1918 he often stayed in Nidden ( Memelland ), a fishing village on the Curonian Spit , which was particularly popular with many artists in summer. Until the end of the Second World War he lived in Rauschen , a seaside resort on the north coast of Samland . From the 1930s onwards, Freymuth exhibited his landscape paintings in the Königsberger Kunstverein . Two portfolios on the landscapes of Samland and Mazury made him known. His brother-in-law, the East Prussian Ernst Rimmek (1890–1953), was a well-known horse and landscape painter.

literature

  • Freymuth, Julius . In: Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, volume 1.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  2. The artists' colony in Nidden / Nida , website in the portal kuenstlerkolonie-nidden.de , accessed on October 26, 2019
  3. ^ Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia . Böhlau, Graz 1971, ISBN 978-3-4123-8871-3 , Volume 3, p. 75