Oskar Freiwirth-Lützow

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Oskar Freiwirth-Lützow (12 May 1862, Moscow - 3 May 1925, Füssen) was a German painter who specialized in historical genre scenes.

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Biography He was born to Wilhelm Lützow and his wife, Karolina née Kunkel. His father was an engineer from Potsdam who, at the time of his birth, was employed by the Moscow-Saint Petersburg State Railways. His mother was descended from a family of Swedish merchants who had emigrated to Russia. While still very young, his parents divorced and his mother remarried; to Oskar Freiwirth, Director of the Phoenix Works, a railway carriage company in Riga. He formally adopted Oskar, which gave him his hyphenated name. When the Phoenix Works went bankrupt, they moved to Stuttgart, his step-father's hometown. There he completed his secondary education and, following his parents' wishes, went to Bonn to study the natural sciences. He had already developed an interest in art, however, so he also took drawing lessons from the sculptor, Albert Küppers. After a time, he was able to convince his parents that his desire to be an artist was sincere, and he was allowed to enroll at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Hugo Crola until 1882. This was followed by a stay in Geneva, working with Barthélemy Menn, and a similar stay in Rome with Giuseppe Ferrari. He also spent some time…Citește mai mult