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Friedrich Friedländer

1825–1901

A Bohemian-born artist, Friedrich Friedländer was a celebrated genre painter who studied at the Vienna Academy. Friedländer began his career as a history painter—the most prestigious genre of academic painting at the time—creating the sensational The Death of Tasso, prior to devoting the majority of his oeuvre to genre scenes. He was awarded several orders of knighthood, including the Order of Francis Joseph and the Bavarian Order of Michael in 1865, and the crown for merit in 1867. He later was elevated to noble status with the suffix von Mahlheim appended to his title.

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People Pouring out of a Public Building into the Street

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People Pouring out of a Public Building into the Street is one of Friedrich Friedländer’s best-known works. In the mid-nineteenth century, as part of a trend in European art that was moving away from…

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The Death of Tasso

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One of Friedrich Friedländer’s best-known paintings, The Death of Tasso, depicts the death of the Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544–1595). Tasso was famous for his epic poem, La Gerusalemme liberate (…
Painting of women seated at rows of desks sewing.
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