Otto Frölicher

Otto Viktor Frölicher ( born June 5, 1840 in Solothurn, † November 2, 1890 in Munich, also Merry or Froelicher ) was a Swiss landscape painter and the most important German Swiss representative of the Paysage intimate.

Life

Frölicher came from the small urban educated middle class milieu and grew up in Solothurn and Olten. His father Joseph was Frölicher 1849-1856 Government. Showed early talent for drawing Otto Frolicher. In October 1859 he went to the Munich Academy to be trained by Johann Gottfried Steffan for landscape painters. In 1863 he moved to Dusseldorf, where he remained until 1865 and the mood painting Oswald Achenbach approached. After his attempt had failed, make a living in the home Solothurn, he moved in the fall of 1868 back to Munich. There he discovered the school's intimate mood landscape of Adolf Heinrich Lier. In the fall of 1876 he traveled to Paris on the recommendation Liers. But he could not cope with the big city life and returned back in 1877 to Munich, where he settled permanently.

Here he taught himself, preferably Swiss such as Hermann Otto Hunziker or Gampert. At the age of 39 years Frölicher ill with diphtheria. The after effects of this disease, along with cancer, pursued him the remaining eleven years of his life.

Frölicher was a member of the artist group Cassandra and the society of artists Allotria in Munich. He also worked several times as a jury member of the Glass Palace exhibitions and was chairman of the Swiss support the Association in Munich.

Work

Otto Frölicher applies together with Johann Adolf Stäbli be the most outstanding representatives of the German Swiss Paysage intimate. In contrast to what Paysage intimate that set its sights on more serene landscapes, the landscapes of the German Swiss remain bleak. "Similar to the Romantics, the landscape for them was like the echo of an inner landscape of the soul. "

"As a more moderate innovators Frölicher had a not to be underestimated proportion of the habituation of native art audience for a modern painting. "

Gallery

Frölicher Otto: Landscape with trees and grazing sheep

View of Solothurn

Mill on the river

Twilight in the area of Dachau, 1880

Otto works Frolicher include, without limitation in the following museums:

Swiss people Museum of Fine Arts Berne Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Integrated Authority File
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