Ernst Fries
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 Self-portrait c. 1830; Lithograph by Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl |
Ernst Fries (22 June 1801 – 11 October 1833) was a German painter.
Biography
Fries was born in Heidelberg. He became a pupil of Karl Kuntz at Karlsruhe, and afterwards studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and in Italy. Examples of his work are: “A View of Tivoli,†“Sorrento and the House of Tasso,†“The Waterfall of Liris at Isola di Sora,†“The Castle of Massa,†and "A View of Heidelberg". He committed suicide, by cutting his wrists in a delirium from scarlet fever,[1][2] at Karlsruhe, aged 32.
Family
His brother, Bernhard Fries, was a landscape painter of note.
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Notes
References
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Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1906). "Fries, Bernhard". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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