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Frederick Carl Frieseke
American painter
born 1874 - died 1939

Student of: Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1931), James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903).
Nephew of: James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903).

Frederick Carl Frieseke was born in Owosso, Michigan on April 7, 1874 to Herman Carl and Eva (Graham) Frieseke. His father manufactured bricks, including those used to build Frieseke's boyhood home. Following his mother's death when Frederick was six years old, Frederick Carl Frieseke spent some time living with his aunt and uncle, Mr. & Mrs. C. C. Duff and working in his uncle's grocery store.

His aunt remembered him as being different from other boys. Frederick Carl Frieseke was more interested in music, art, and reading than athletics and the outdoors. Frederick Carl Frieseke would even draw in the margins or on the end pages of his school books. Frederick Carl Frieseke frequently sang with his aunt and uncle, but his grandmother, Mrs. Valetta Gould Graham, liked to paint and encouraged him to develop his artistic talents.

After graduating from Owosso High School in 1893, Frieseke went on to study art at the Chicago Art Institute for a year. In 1895 Frederick Carl Frieseke moved to New York to study at the Art Students' League, and in 1898 Frederick Carl Frieseke moved to Paris where Frederick Carl Frieseke enrolled at the Academie Julian and was influenced by James A. M. Whistler. - Frieseke Frederick Carl famous oil paintings for sale art - Frieseke Frederick Carl - American famous oil painting for sale, famous oil paintings for sale and Frieseke Frederick Carl Bio, sale famous oil painting by American Frieseke.

During these first few years in Paris, Frieseke spent part of his time doing work commissioned by Rodman Wanamaker. Frederick Carl Frieseke was also commissioned to paint murals for Wanamaker's store in New York and the Shelbourne Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Wanamaker's interest is credited with providing Frieseke freedom from pursuits other than painting.

In 1906 Frieseke rented the house next door to Claude Monet in Giverny, France for the summer. Frederick Carl Frieseke and his wife, Sarah Ann O'Bryan, whom Frederick Carl Frieseke married in 1905, and later their daughter Frances spent their summers there until about 1919. Many of Frieseke's paintings were set in this house or its garden.

Frieseke was increasingly dissatisfied with the formal art forms of his time. In an interview with Clara T. MacChesney, probably in 1912, Frederick Carl Frieseke considered himself an impressionist and said, "No artist in [the impressionist] school has influenced me except, perhaps, Renoir." His principal concerns were the varied effects of sunlight. As Frederick Carl Frieseke said himself, "It is sunshine, flowers in sunshine; girls in sunshine; the nude in sunshine, which I have been principally interested in. If I could only reproduce it exactly as I see it I would be satisfied." His subjects were often women seated in sunny gardens or boudoirs. Occasionally Frederick Carl Frieseke also painted landscapes, still-lifes, and nudes. As Frederick Carl Frieseke grew older, Frederick Carl Frieseke painted more of his own life, including his wife and daughter.

Frieseke's paintings won many honors beginning with a silver medal at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904; Frederick Carl Frieseke also won the gold medal in Munich that same year. The climax in a succession of honors was reached in 1915 when Frederick Carl Frieseke won the grand prize at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. In 1920 his painting Torn Lingerie won two gold medals and the popular prize at the Chicago Art Institute, based upon the opinions of both other artists and the general public.- Frieseke Frederick Carl famous oil paintings for sale art - Frieseke Frederick Carl - American famous oil painting for sale, famous oil paintings for sale and Frieseke Frederick Carl Bio, sale famous oil painting by American Frieseke.

After the first World War, Frieseke purchased a country home in Normandy. Frederick Carl Frieseke preferred living in France to the United States because of the freedom it offered him. As his grandson Nicholas Kilmer noted, the Friesekes lived in Normandy for two reasons--first the trout fishing was good and second Frieseke was not required "to make a noise like an artist". Frieseke himself said, "I stay on here because I am more free and there are not the Puritanical restrictions which prevail in America . . . .I can paint a nude in my garden or down by the fish pond and not be run out of town." Frieseke, however, continued to consider himself an American and made occasional trips back to the States.

In 1904 the French government purchased his Before the Glass, and it was hung in the Luxembourg Gallery. In 1912, after his first solo exhibition, Wanamaker gave Frieseke's La Toilette to the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Many other museums were also to acquire his paintings including The Art Institute of Chicago, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Modern Gallery in Venice, Italy. Two of his paintings have hung in the Shiawassee District Library--Lady With the Sunshade, which was a gift to the city of Owosso in 1926, and Holland 1898. A number of other museums, private individuals, and the Shiawassee Arts Council also have some of his paintings.

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