Oskar Frenzel
Oskar Frenzel (born November 12, 1855 in Berlin ; † May 15, 1915 there ) was a German animal and landscape painter .
Life
Frenzel was originally a lithographer . He trained as an animal and landscape painter in addition to his work as a lithographer from 1879 in the evening classes of the teaching institution of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts . Between 1884 and 1889 he studied at the Berlin Art Academy with Paul Meyerheim and Eugen Bracht . Together with his colleague Paul Müller-Kaempff, he “discovered” the fishing village of Ahrenshoop in 1889 , where an artist colony was established in the years that followed.
After the first major prizes at exhibitions in Berlin, such as a large gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in 1896 , Frenzel co-founded the Berlin Secession in 1898 and was a member of its board. He resigned from the Secession in 1902 and was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts from 1904 until his death . His works were in the Alte Nationalgalerie , in the Neue Pinakothek and in the museums of Dresden, Königsberg, Magdeburg and Vienna.
literature
- Willy Kurth : Frenzel, Oskar . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 426 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop (ed.): “Around us is a day of creation”. From the artist colony to today. Ahrenshoop 2013, ISBN 978-3-9816136-1-2 , p. 84 f.
- Alfried Nehring: Oskar Frenzel and Fritz Grebe - Symbols of rural peace in landscape painting around 1900. Klatschmohnverlag, Rostock / Bentwisch 2016, ISBN 978-3-941064-59-1 , book accompanying the exhibition The Ahrenshoop cow painters in the Ahrenshoop art gallery on May 15 - July 10, 2016.
Web links
- Works by Oskar Frenzel on artnet
- Website about Oskar Frenzel
Individual evidence
- ↑ Membership database of the academy.
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SURNAME | Frenzel, Oskar |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German animal and landscape painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1855 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1915 |
Place of death | Berlin |