Otto FRÖLICHER (* 1840, † 1890)

Otto Frölicher was a prominent Swiss landscape painter and, along with Johann Adolf Stäbli, one of the leading exponents of the Paysage intime movement in German-speaking Switzerland.

Otto Frölicher was a member of the Allotria Artists’ Society, an offshoot of the Munich Artists’ Cooperative, which included artists who did not participate in the art exhibition at the Glaspalast. On the other hand, Frölicher served on the jury of this exhibition on several occasions. He was also chairman of the Swiss Support Association in Munich.

Works by Otto Frölicher

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Short biography of Otto Frölicher

1840
born in Solothurn, Switzerland

– even as a child, Otto Frölicher showed a talent for drawing

1859
trained as a landscape painter under Johann Gottfried Steffan at the Academy in Munich

1865
moved to Düsseldorf, drawn to Oswald Achenbach’s atmospheric painting

– his attempt to make a living as a painter in Solothurn was unsuccessful

1868
back in Munich, he discovered the school of intimate atmospheric landscape painting through Adolf Heinrich Liers

1876
attempted to settle in Paris

1877
back in Munich, he teaches primarily Swiss students such as Otto Gampert

1879
Frölicher contracts diphtheria and cancer. The aftereffects of these illnesses accompany him until his death.

1890
died in Munich, Germany