Richard Freytag
Richard Freytag (born February 16, 1820 in Gotha ; † May 22, 1894 ibid) was a German painter .
life and work
Richard Freytag was the son of Consistorial President Friedrich Freytag and married to Anna Freytag (née Besser). He studied from 1840 to 1844 at the Royal Prussian Art Academy under Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow as a private student with Johannes Niessen . From 1843 to 1845 he stayed in Munich and studied at the academy there , in 1849 in Antwerp , then in Paris and Darmstadt and from 1853 to 1855 in Rome , from where he traveled to Italy . Then he went to Dresden and settled in Gotha again in 1860.
His painting, in addition to portraits and historical pictures, primarily depictions of the landscapes of Thuringia, was influenced by the Düsseldorf Romanticism . Frequent subjects of his landscape paintings were Schwabhausen and the Seeberg ; He portrayed his painters colleagues August Noack and Paul Emil Jacobs and the Gotha mayor Karl Heinrich Hünersdorf . His pictures are in the museum in Gotha and are privately owned. Occasionally, works by the artist are offered in the international auction trade.
literature
- Friedrich Noack : Freytag, Richard . 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. 448 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Daniel Trowbridge Mallett: Index of Artists, International-biographical: Including Painters, Sculptors, Illustrators, Engravers and Etchers of the Past and the Present. 1935, p. 438.
- Richard Freytag . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 45, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22785-X , p. 17.
Web links
- Official gazette of the city of Gotha (PDF; 957 kB)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Freytag, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gotha |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1894 |
| Place of death | Gotha |