Richard Bernhard Louis Friese

Style: Naturalism;

Place: Gumbinnen

Born: 1854

Death: 1918

Biography:

Richard Friese was a German animal and landscape painter. He was born in Gumbinnen, Germany in 1854. He studied at the Academy in Berlin and rapidly acquired his reputation as one of the best animal painters in Germany, especially noted for his vivid delineations of the lion's life in the desert, and also of the native deer world in the German forest. He was awarded a gold medal in 1886, and elected a member of the Berlin Academy in 1892. He died in 1918 in Bad Zwischenahn, Germany.