Hermann Freese

Portrait of Freese from 1870

Hunting wild boars

Johann Oskar Hermann Freese was a,Pomeranian artist. He emphasized animals and hunting scenes.

Personal life[]

He was born in Pomerania in 1813. He was expected by his father to be a farmer, in spite of his early inclination to art. At age 34 he devoted himself to painting. He visited the studio of Wilhelm Brücke, then that of Carl Steffeck in Berlin.

Art[]

In 1857 his first work, Stags Fighting, appeared. His subjects were principally hunting, which he loved passionately. Among his works are Deer Fleeing, Stags attacked by Wolves and a Boar Hunt, all in the Berlin National Gallery.

Death[]

He died at Hessenfelde, near Fürstenwald, in 1871, of brain fever, which he contracted while trying to cross a river.

See also[]

• List of German painters

References[]

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "FREESE, Johann Oskar Hermann". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

External links[]

Media related to Hermann Freese at Wikimedia Commons

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