Ernst Fries

Ernst Fries (22 June 1801, Heidelberg – 11 October 1833, Karlsruhe) was a German painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, printmaker, and lithograph.

Besides Karl Philipp Fohr and Carl Rottmann, he was the youngest of the so-called triumvirate of Heidelberg Romanticism.

At this point, he slowly came to prefer landscape painting and, from 1820 to 1821, enrolled in courses at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.

[3] In Rome he came in contact to the Deutsch-Römer group of painters and met Josef Anton Koch and Friedrich Overbeck.

[6][7] Fries' numerous trips through the Roman Campagna and further regions of Italy are documented meticulously (with maps) by Sigrid Wechssler in her recent monography and catalogue raisonné.