Frederick Carl Frieseke

Frederick Carl Frieseke was an American painter who was born in Osso, Michigan in 1874 and died in France in 1939. Frieseke studied in Chicago and New York with Constant, Whistler, and Yean-Paul Laurens. His works are mainly paintings of outdoor scenes and sunlit interiors with the human figure, often partially or completely nude, as the principal subject. Frieseke's main influence was the Art Nouveau Movement, and he was the leading American Impressionist of his time. Frieseke's earliest mature works, images of individual women in interiors painted in fairly close tonalities, reflect Whistler's influence, but once he and his wife settled, in 1906, in the art colony at Giverny, where Claude Monet resided, Frieseke rapidly developed a very original aesthetic which would have an impact upon almost all the later figural painters among the colonists. The Friesekes rented a house, surrounded by tall walls, which had been the residence of Theodore Robinson, one of the founders of the Giverny art colony. There they developed a sumptuous, colorful garden, which served as the setting for many of Frieseke's pictures. The outside of their house was painted in strikingly bright colors, yellow with green shutters, while the living room walls were lemon yellow and the kitchen, a deep blue. The artist also maintained a second studio on the Epte River, which ran through the town, where he painted many of his renderings of the nude outdoors.

Frederick Carl Frieseke Images:
Basket of Flowers
Breakfast In The Garden
On The Balcony
The Birdcage
The Garden Parasol
The Garden Parasol, 1909
The Mirror
Venus in the Sunlight