Oskar Frenzel

Oskar Frenzel
Oskar Frenzel (left)[1]
Born	12 November 1855 Berlin, Germany
Died	15 May 1915 (aged 59) Berlin, Germany
Occupation	landscape-artist, animal painter and lithographer
Website	http://www.oskar-frenzel.de/index.htm (in German)

Oskar Frenzel (12 November 1855 – 15 May 1915) was a German landscape-artist, animal painter and lithographer.

Life

Frenzel was originally a lithographer. He formed the animal and landscape painter first in addition to his work as a lithographer from 1879 in the evening classes of the teaching institute of Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin. Between 1884 and 1889 he studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin under Paul Friedrich Meyerheim and Eugen Bracht. With his colleague Paul Müller-Kaempff he "discovered" in 1889 the fishing village of Ahrenshoop on the Baltic Sea, where established an artists' colony in the following years.

After first big prizes at exhibitions in Berlin, such as 1896 a large gold medal at the International Art Exhibition,^[2][3] Frenzel was 1898 co-founder of the Berlin Secession and was a member of its committee. In 1902 he joined the Secession again and was from 1904 until his death a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts.^[4] His works were in the Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery) in Berlin, the Neue Pinakothek (New Pinakothek) in Munich and in the museums of Dresden, Königsberg, Magdeburg and Vienna.

Further reading

• Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker at all (1916). Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. (in German). Vol. 12. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig. p. 426.
• Friedrich Schulz (2001). Ahrenshoop. Künstlerlexikon. (in German). Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude. p. 55f. ISBN 3-88132-292-2.
• Ruth Negendanck (2001). Künstlerkolonie Ahrenshoop. (in German). Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude. p. 35ff. ISBN 3-88132-294-9.
• Alfried Nehring (2016). Oskar Frenzel und Fritz Grebe – Sinnbilder ländlichen Friedens in der Landschaftsmalerei um 1900. (in German). Klatschmohnverlag, Rostock/Bentwisch. ISBN 978-3-941064-59-1.

References

1. Oskar Frenzel (left) with the committee of the Berlin Secession at the II. Secessions-exhibition, Berlin 1900, for the other members see description at Commons.
2. Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung Berlin, Katalog (in German). Verlag von Rud. Schuster, Berlin, today: Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (Joint Library Network). 1896. p. XXI.
3. Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung, Katalog (in German). Verlag von Rud. Schuster, Berlin, today: Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (Joint Library Network). 1897. p. XVI.
4. Members Database of the Academy of Arts Berlin

External Links

• Paintings from Oskar Frenzel at Artnet