Lorenz Frølich (25 October 1820 – 25 October 1908)^{[needs IPA]} was aDanish painter, illustrator, graphic artist andetcher.^[1]

Lorenz Frølich
Born	Lorenz Frølich (1820-10-25)25 October 1820 Copenhagen,Danish Unitary State
Died	25 October 1908(1908-10-25) (aged 88) Hellerup, Denmark

Frølich was born into a wealthy bourgeouis family in Copenhagen. The son of Johan Jacob Frølich (1777-1858) and Pouline Wilhelmine Tutein (1789-1881). His father owned a successful trading firm in partnership with his brother. His mother was the daughter ofFriederich Tutein, another wealthy wholesaler and the Prussian consul in Copenhagen. Frølich's father and uncle owned the building atStore Kongensgade 81. He lived with his parents in the apartment on the first floor. The uncle lived with his wife in the ground-floor apartment. The family belonged to the city'sGerman reformed congregation.

Frølich was fond of drawing from an early age. Another early influence was his father's maternal uncle,Johan Conrad Spengler, who in his capacity of inspector of Kunstkammeret was able to give him access to the royal galleries inChristiansborg Palace. He received instructions in drawing fromMartinus Rørbye from 1833 and later also fromChristen Købke andChristoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.

He later continued his training abroad, first inDresden underEduard Julius Bendemann (1843–1846) and then inParis underThomas Couture (1852–1853).

Afterward he lived much inRome and in Paris, where he constantly exhibited at thesalons. In 1877 he was appointedprofessor at theRoyal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen. Hisillustrations, especially of children's books, are known everywhere and are more important than his paintings. His daughterEdma Frølich was his favorite model when a baby and a child for his French albums withPierre-Jules Hetzel.^[2][3]

He also furnished originaletchings forIllustreret Danmarkshistorie for Folket (1853–1855) byAdam Kristoffer Fabricius [da];Die Götter des Nordens (1845) andDe tvende Kirketaarne (1844) byAdam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, and many other works. He painted a decoration in the Court of Appeals atFlensburg,Schleswig-Holstein, and in some public buildings of his native land.^[4]

Danish painter and tapestry artistDagmar Olrik (1860–1932) and her assistants spent 18 years decorating a room inCopenhagen's City Hall with tapestries based on cartoons of Nordic mythology by Frølich.^[5][6]

In 1855, he married Carolina (Lina) Charlotta in de Betou (1823–1872). They were the parents of painterEdma Frølich (1859–1958).^[7]

Carl Nielsen composed theKantate til Lorenz Frølich-Festen (CNW 103) for Frølich's eightieth birthday, celebrated in Koncertpalæet,Copenhagen, on 30 November 1900.

Lorenz Frølich died in 1908 inHellerup,Denmark.

• King Harald Bluetooth (1840)
• Cupid and the Water-Sprite (1845, Leipzig Museum)
• Family of a Wood-God

• The Lord's Prayer, Illustrated in a series of Etchings, 1863.
• Illustrations for Nordens Guder (Nordic Gods) by Adam Oehlenschläger, 1885.
• Illustrations for Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange by Karl Gjellerup, 1895.
• Works by Lorenz Frølich atProject Gutenberg
• Works by or about Lorenz Frølich at theInternet Archive
• Eight stories illustrated by Lorenz Frølich in the Baldwin Library, University of Florida
• MyNDIR (My Norse Digital Image Repository) Illustrations by Lorenz Frølich from manuscripts and early print books.