Karl Friedrich Fries
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Karl Friedrich Fries, born at Winnweiler, in the Palatinate, in 1831, studied first at the Academy at Munich, and afterwards under . He visited Vienna, and painted there under Rahl; then went to Venice, Florence, and Calabria, where he studied the old masters. He died at St. Gall, Switzerland, in 1871. His style much resembles that of the Venetian painters.
The following are some of his works:
- Wine, Woman, and Song; in the style of Paolo Veronese. 1862.
- The Mineral Bath in the Abruzzi.
- Several copies of the Ascension of the Virgin; after Titian.
- St. Barbara; after Palma Vecchio.
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "FRIES, Karl Friedrich". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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- 1831 births
- 1871 deaths
- 19th-century German painters
- 19th-century male artists
- German male painters
- People from Donnersbergkreis
- Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni
- People from the Palatinate (region)
- German painter stubs