Bernhard Fries

Also at an early age, Fries became aware of the Scottish painter George Augustus Wallis (his father's very valuable art collection comprised important Dutch painting of the period 1700–1800, paintings of Claude Lorrain, Poussin, Joseph Anton Koch, and several works by Wallis).

[1] Around 1835, Bernhard met Carl Rottmann in Munich, who had been a closed friend of his older brother Ernst.

[3] In Rome, Fries met the landscape artist Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, and stayed for a few years in Italy.

[4] Accompanied by Andreas Achenbach and Adolf Carl, Fries traveled to Italy again in the fall of 1843, via Rome to Sicily (1844), turned back to Munich and Heidelberg in 1845.

While continuing his unsteady life, he became involved in the revolution in 1848 and had contact with David Friedrich Strauss and Ludwig Feuerbach.

[5] His last major works include the cycle of 40 Italian landscapes (now in Munich) with views of Italy, created in the style of Carl Rottmann.