Background
Richard Friese was born on December 15, 1854 in Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
Richard Fries, a wildlife and landscape painter, attended German art schools in Berlin including the Art Academie of Berlin from 1874 - 1880.
Richard Friese was born on December 15, 1854 in Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
Richard Fries, a wildlife and landscape painter, attended German art schools in Berlin including the Art Academie of Berlin from 1874 - 1880.
Unfortunately, too little information is known about Richard's artistic career. After traveling in Norway and the Orient, Richard Friese did painting that earned him a prestigious reputation for animal painting in Germany and beyond. His work was exhibited in Paris, Vienna and Berlin. In 1892 he became an official member of the Art Academie of Berlin and in 1896 became a professor.
His most noteworthy productions included “Lions Surprising Caravan's Camp” (1884), “Elks on Field of Battle” (1890), “In the Bredszell Moor” (1895), and “A Twenty-pronged Stag under Way,” owned by Emperor William II. His famous moose and deer images were acquired by the German - Austrian empire and were then issued in famous German museums (Berlin, Dresden, Munster, etc.) He painted a year only 1-2 large images. Most of them were destroyed in the last years of the war or listed as missing. He died in 1918 in Bad Zwischenahn.
Zwei Antilopen
1882The Garden Arbor
1889The Tiger
1890Moose in a Winter Landscape
1895Rentier auf Anhöhe vor verschneiter Tundralandschaft
1896Auf Leben und Tod (Edelhirsche in der Brunft)
1897A horseback ride
1900Reed harvest
1900Waldlandschaft
1907Elchrudel auf einem Berghang (Preussen)
1908Snow Play
1910Eislandschaft auf Grönland
1911Three Polar Bears
1912Deer in a Forest Glade
1912South African Landscape with Springboks
Der alte Herr vom Berg
Ziehender Elch im Morgenlicht
Norwegian Winter Landscape with an Elk and a Brown Bear
Richard Bernhard Louis Friese adhered to the artistic traditions of Naturalism.
He was elected a member of the Berlin Academy in 1892.