Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874 -1939) ✽ American artist

Thank you all for viewing and comments! ✽ All the best! The American artist Fred Carl Frieseke began his professional life as a caricaturist and later achieved great success as a painter. Frieseke was born in 1874 in the city of Owosso in Michigan and died in 1939, just a few days after the opening of the major retrospective of his work at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City...... Around 1900 Frieseke moved with his wife to Giverny in a small house next to the Claude Monets estate. Many other artists from the United States had also settled in the small town. Among them were Guy Rose, Lawton Parker, Edmund Greacen and Richard Edward Miller. Their works are often associated with Freseke’s work. Despite his beautiful residence in Giverny, Frieseke continued to treat himself to an apartment and studio in Paris. His favorite motif at that time was female figures in colorful garden surroundings. For this he used a fast, broken brushstroke of Impressionism. In Giverny, Frieseke&