Artist

Ernst Fries

Portrait of Ernst Fries
Portrait of Ernst Fries

German, 1801–1833

Ernst Fries was a German Romanticism artist. 17 works are cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art. Ernst Fries was born in Heidelberg.

Ernst Fries (22 June 1801, Heidelberg – 11 October 1833, Karlsruhe) was a German painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, printmaker, and lithograph. Besides Karl Philipp Fohr and Carl Rottmann, he was the youngest of the so-called triumvirate of Heidelberg Romanticism. His works represent a transition from Romanticism to Realism.

Works by Ernst Fries

Collections represented

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