Otto Frölicher
(1840 - 1890)

Otto Viktor Frölicher was a Swiss landscape painter. In 1859, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, and became a student of landscape painting under Johann Gottfried Steffan. Four years later, he moved to Düsseldorf, where he came under the influence of Oswald Achenbach. After going home to Solothurn, he found that he was unable to earn a living as a painter there and returned to Munich and discovered a new influence, Adolf Heinrich Lier. In 1876, he travelled to Paris on the recommendation of Lier, but was not able to adapt to big city life and, a year later, returned to Munich which, at that time, had barely 200,000 people.

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Schmadribach
c. 1881
Oil on canvas
111.5 x 92 cm
Kunstmuseum Solothurn
https://www.kunstmuseum-so.ch/de/museum/2-das-museum