Ernst Fries

Ernst Fries (22 June 1801 – 11 October 1833) was a German painter.

Self-portrait c. 1830; Lithograph by Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl

Biography
Sabine mountains (German: Sabiner Berge), 1827.

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.

See also

Notes
  1. New York Public Library
  2. About Art History

References
  • Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1906). "Fries, Bernhard" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.


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