Hermann Freese

Johann Oskar Hermann Freese was a,Pomeranian artist.

He was expected by his father to be a farmer, in spite of his early inclination to art.

He visited the studio of Wilhelm Brücke, then that of Carl Steffeck in Berlin.

Among his works are Deer Fleeing, Stags attacked by Wolves and a Boar Hunt, all in the Berlin National Gallery.

He died at Hessenfelde, near Fürstenwald, in 1871, of brain fever, which he contracted while trying to cross a river.