Oskar Freiwirth-Lützow

Oskar Freiwirth-Lützow (12 May 1862, Moscow - 3 May 1925, Füssen) was a German painter who specialized in historical genre scenes.

While still very young, his parents divorced and his mother remarried; to Oskar Freiwirth, Director of the Phoenix Works, a railway carriage company in Riga.

After a time, he was able to convince his parents that his desire to be an artist was sincere, and he was allowed to enroll at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Hugo Crola until 1882.

He also spent some time in Paris with Adolphe William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury, where he was influenced by the Barbizon School.

His studio flourished, and he was offered the post of President in the recently founded Saint Petersburg Society of Artists.