Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser (September 12, 1857 inGnoien – September 7, 1921 inDresden) was a German portrait, landscape, and history painter.
Friedrich Heyser studied from 1880 to 1883 at theAcademy of Fine Arts in Dresden as a student ofLeon Pohle andPaul Mohn. From 1883 to 1885,[1] he studied withFerdinand Keller at theAcademy of Fine Arts inKarlsruhe. In 1890 he briefly attended theAcadémie Julian inParis. He lived and worked inBerlin,Bad Harzburg, and Dresden.
Heyser was a member of theAllgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft[2] and the artist groupGrün-Weiss, formed around 1910. Green and white are thestate colors ofSaxony. TheGrün-Weiß group, as a progressive group within theDresden Art Cooperative, presented their works from October 29, 1910, in theEmil Richter Art Salon. Members of theGrün-Weiß group included paintersMax Frey,Josef Goller,Georg Jahn,Walther Illner,Georg Lührig,Max Pietschmann,Paul von Schlippenbach,Bernhard Schröter,Johann Walter-Kurau, sculptorsRichard Guhr,Hans Hartmann-McLean,Heinrich Wedemeyer, and architectsRudolf Bitzan,Georg Heinsius von Mayenburg, andMartin Pietzsch.[3][4] From today's perspective, theGrün-Weiß was a moderate attempt to bring movement into the conservative structures of theDresden Art Cooperative.[5]
Friedrich Heyser created numerous portraits of well-known personalities as well as genre-like depictions, often based on German poetry. In the last years of his life he created some landscape paintings u. a. from the island ofFöhr and fromFriesland.
Portraits
Genre-like depictions
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