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Friedrich Petri

Friedrich Richard Petri (1824 - 1857) was active/lived in Texas / Germany.  Friedrich Petri is known for Portrait, figure, and genre painting.

Quoted from: W. W. Newcomb, Jr., "PETRI, FRIEDRICH RICHARD," Handbook of Texas Online

Friedrich Richard Petri, painter, was born on July 31, 1824, in Dresden, Saxony, the son of Heinrich and Juliane Dorothea (Weise) Petri.  His father was a well-to-do master shoemaker, and Dorothea was a shoemaker's daughter.  Petri entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden when he was fourteen and studied there for eleven years under Adrian Ludwig Richter and Julius Hübner.  An apt pupil, he won six awards while there and was ultimately offered a scholarship to study in Italy, which included the further honor of returning to the academy as an instructor.  Ill health apparently led him to refuse the offer.  At the academy Petri became a friend of an older student, Karl Friedrich Hermann Lungkwitz, who subsequently became a well-known Texas landscape painter.  With other students, they joined in the unsuccessful revolution of May 1849 in Dresden.  Embittere   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4049 characters.]  Artist bio

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