Oskar Frenzel

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Oskar Frenzel (left in the picture) with the board of directors of the Berlin Secession in the Second Secession Exhibition, Berlin 1900
Cows at a ford (ca.1908)

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

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Membership database of the academy.
personal data
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